Leivistä

Leivistä is a Finnish grammatical form: the elatiivi plural of the noun leipä (bread). The elatiivi case marks origin or source, roughly translating to “from” or “out of” in English. In the plural, leivistä refers to from the breads or from multiple loaves, and is used when the reference involves more than one unit of bread.

In Finnish, nouns decline for number and case. For leipä, the singular elatiivi is leivästä, while the plural elatiivi is leivistä. This form appears in written language and in more formal speech, particularly when discussing quantities, sources, or movements related to several loaves rather than a single one. In everyday conversation, speakers may choose wording that avoids the plural elatiivi, depending on the context.

Related plural forms include leipien (genitive plural), leipien (genitive plural), leipien or leipien (depending on variation), and other cases such as inessive leivissä (in the breads) and partitive leipiä (some breads). The base noun leipä also has a standard singular elative form leivästä and a corresponding nominative plural leivät.

Example: Leivistä riitti koko perheelle. This sentence illustrates the elatiivi plural use, indicating that there was enough bread from the loaves for the entire family.