Kuudennesta

Kuudennesta is the elative singular form of the Finnish ordinal kuudes, meaning "the sixth." It is a grammatical form used to indicate origin, starting point, or source in constructions that require the elative case. In practice, kuudennesta appears before the noun it modifies when that noun is expressed in the elative case, for example to say “from the sixth [floor],” “from the sixth day,” and similar phrases.

In Finnish, ordinals decline like adjectives and agree with the noun in number and case. The singular forms include nominative kuudes, genitive kuudennen, partitive kuudetta, and elative kuudennesta. The elative form kuudennesta is typically followed by a noun in the elative case, most commonly kerroksesta (the sixth floor) or päivästä (the sixth day). For instance, kuudennesta päivästä lähtien means “from the sixth day onward.”

Usage and context: kuudennesta is most often encountered in spatial or temporal expressions. It is common in technical, architectural, or logistical texts to specify origins or starting points, such as floors of a building or dates in a timeline. It can also appear in dictionaries or language descriptions when illustrating Finnish case forms of ordinal numerals. In everyday speech, speakers may choose more general expressions, but kuudennesta remains a standard, correct form in formal or written Finnish.

Etymology and notes: kuudennesta derives from the ordinal kuudes, itself related to the root for the number six. Like other Finnish ordinals, kuudennesta is a specialized inflected form rather than an independent word, and its correct use depends on matching the case of the noun it accompanies.