Kiinteistöä

Kiinteistä is the elative plural form of the Finnish adjective kiinteä. The base kiinteä means fixed, solid, or tangible, and it can also denote a constant value in technical language. In Finnish grammar kiinteä declines like other adjectives, so kiinteä’s elative plural form is kiinteistä, which is used when kiinteä modifies a plural noun in the elative case. For example, kiinteistä rakennuksista means from fixed buildings.

The adjective kiinteä has several common senses. It can describe physical solidity or fixed position (for instance, kiinteä yhteys, a fixed connection). It is also used in mathematical or technical contexts to indicate a constant or unchanging value (kiinteä arvo, a fixed value). In everyday language, kiinteä appears in compound terms such as kiinteät kustannukset (fixed costs) or kiinteä sopimus (a fixed contract). The specific form kiinteistä is not a standalone noun; it functions as a declined form of kiinteä to agree with a plural noun in the elative case.

Kiinteistö is a related but distinct word meaning real estate or property. Its plural genitive and related cases differ from kiinteä’s forms; for example kiinteistöistä means from real estate, not from fixed things. Thus kiinteistä is specifically the elative plural form of kiinteä and should be distinguished from similar-looking forms derived from other words.

In summary, kiinteistä is a grammatical form used to express “from fixed things” or “of fixed things” when kiinteä modifies a plural noun in the elative case, and it appears in contexts discussing solidity, fixed states, or fixed values.