Niistä

Niistä is a Finnish grammatical form used with the plural demonstrative pronoun ne, functioning in the elative case. It roughly corresponds to “from those” or “about those” in English and is used to refer to multiple items or topics that have already been mentioned or are known in the discourse.

In practice, niistä appears in contexts involving origin, source, or topic of discussion. It often follows verbs that take an elative object, such as talk about or learn from. Common examples include:

- Puhuin niistä. (I talked about them / from them.)

- Olen oppinut paljon niistä. (I have learned a lot from them / about them.)

- Niistä asioista voidaan ottaa opiksi. (From those matters one can learn lessons.)

Form and related forms: niistä is the elative plural form of ne. The corresponding singular elative is siitä (from it / about it). The genitive plural form of ne is niiden (of those). These forms are part of the broader Finnish case system, where -stä(-stä) marks the elative case, indicating origin or source.

Notes: niistä is a pronoun-based form and its exact meaning depends on the verb and context; it can express “from those things” or “about those things.” Because Finnish allows flexible word order, niistä frequently appears early or late in a sentence, with the surrounding clauses clarifying whether the reference is to origin, source, or topic.

See also: siittä (from this / about this, singular), siitä (from it / about it), niiden (genitive plural of ne).