Maisemista

Maisemista is a Finnish word form, the elative plural of maisema (“landscape”). As an elative case, maisemista generally expresses movement or origin away from multiple landscapes, or the source or topic when used with verbs that govern the elative (for example, puhua jostakin — “to talk about something”). The suffix -ista marks the plural elative in Finnish nominal morphology.

Grammatical functions include indicating origin or departure (literal or figurative), specifying material or source, and introducing topics in constructions that require the elative. Common translations into English are “from the landscapes,” “out of the landscapes,” or, in contexts with verbs like puhua, “about landscapes.” Example uses: maisemista tuli paljon kuvia (“many pictures came from the landscapes”), and keskustelimme maisemista (“we discussed/about landscapes”).

In discourse and culture, maisemista appears in descriptions of geography, art history, photography, and environmental writing when referring to multiple landscape features or landscape-related themes. It is also found in literary and journalistic contexts where plurality and directional nuance are emphasized.

Related forms include the base noun maisema (singular), the nominative plural maisemat, and the partitive plural maisemia. For further information, consult resources on Finnish case morphology and nominal declension.