Loppupäivistä

Loppupäivistä is the elatiivi (from) plural form of the Finnish noun loppupäivä, a compound of loppu meaning “end” and päivä meaning “day.” The base loppupäivä can refer to the late part of a day (the late afternoon or evening) or, in a broader or figurative sense, to the final phase of a period. The form loppupäivistä thus translates roughly to “from the end days” or “from the late days,” and it is used when a statement concerns something originating from or pertaining to those days.

In practice, loppupäivistä is relatively rare in everyday speech and is mostly found in written Finnish, especially in historical, religious, or scholarly texts, or in narratives that discuss a sequence of days as a unit. It can appear in phrases such as loppupäivistä peräisin oleva tieto, meaning information that originates from the end days. The usage emphasizes origin or source in a temporal sense, rather than simply describing the time of day.

Because of its specialized nature, many speakers would opt for more common expressions to convey similar timing or nuance. For example, to refer to late hours of a day one would typically say myöhään illalla, while to discuss the later period of several days one might use loppupäivinä or a different contextual formulation depending on the exact meaning.

See also: loppupäivä, elatiivi case.