Kyseisistä

Kyseisistä is a Finnish word that functions as the elative plural form of the demonstrative adjective kyseinen, meaning “the said” or “the aforementioned.” It is used to refer to items or matters that have already been mentioned or are understood from context. In written Finnish, kyseinen and its inflected forms refer back to a previously discussed noun, allowing the writer to avoid repetition.

In practice, kyseisistä appears in phrases where the speaker or writer wants to indicate sources, subjects, or items that have been introduced earlier. A common use is with the noun asioita or asiat, as in kyseisistä asioista, meaning “about the aforementioned matters.” The same root yields other inflected forms such as kyseisten (genitive plural) or kyseisistä (elative plural), depending on the required case of the noun it accompanies.

Kyseinen forms are typical in formal, legal, and academic Finnish, where precise cross-referencing to previously stated content is important. In everyday language, speakers often opt for more explicit repetition or simpler phrases like edellä mainitut, but kyseisen- forms remain common in dense prose.

Etymology traces kyseinen to the root ky-s- meaning “to refer to a matter under discussion.” The word behaves like a regular Finnish adjective, agreeing with the noun it modifies in number and case. Examples: kyseisen lain (the said law) in singular genitive, kyseiset lainet (the said laws) in nominative plural, sekä kyseisiä asioita (some of the said matters) in partitive. See also: kyseinen, kyseiset.