Kymmeneltä

Kymmeneltä is a Finnish expression formed from the numeral ten (kymmenen) with a case ending that is used to indicate time. It is commonly understood as meaning “at ten o’clock” or “from ten” depending on the context, and it is especially frequent in scheduling, timetables, and everyday references to when something happens.

In practice, kymmeneltä is used to state when an event occurs. For example, Kokous alkaa kymmeneltä means “the meeting starts at ten,” and Juna lähtee kymmeneltä means “the train leaves at ten.” It is typical in neutral, standard Finnish and appears in both spoken and written form. The phrase does not require the word kello; using kymmeneltä alone conveys the time.

Etymologically, kymmeneltä is the form of the word for ten that is appropriate for indicating starting time or a point of departure in time. It is related to other time expressions formed from numbers with case endings, such as genitive or partitive constructions, but kymmeneltä itself specifically marks a time reference.

Notes and variations: While kymmeneltä is dominant for “at ten,” Finnish also uses other time expressions with related numbers (for example, kahdelta for two o’clock in some contexts), and regional or informal speech may vary in preference. Nonetheless, kymmeneltä remains a standard, widely understood form for denoting a specific starting time.