Kuormista

Kuormista is the elative plural form of the Finnish noun kuorma, meaning loads or cargo. It is not a separate concept, but a grammatical form used to indicate origin or source of the loads. The form is formed from the nominative plural kuormat plus the elative suffix -ista, yielding a meaning close to “from the loads” or “of the loads.”

In practical use, kuormista appears in contexts such as logistics, shipping, and inventory management, where it refers to the origins of materials or goods being examined or processed. The elative case is commonly used after verbs that express extraction, removal, or examination of the loads. For example, kuormista otettiin näytteitä tutkimusta varten means “samples were taken from the loads for the study.” The form thus helps specify the source of an action within a sentence.

Related forms for kuorma include kuorma (singular nominative), kuormat (plural nominative), kuormapaseja like kuorman (genitive), kuormissa (inessive), and kuormiin (illatives), which illustrate how Finnish uses cases to express location, origin, and movement with the same base word.

Notes and nuances: kuormista is a grammatical form rather than a specialized term. Its meaning depends on the surrounding verb and context; in everyday language it often appears in technical or formal texts dealing with cargo, freight, or material handling.

See also: kuorma, kuormittaminen, kuormisto.