Pankista

Pankista is the elative case form of the Finnish noun pankki, meaning from the bank. In Finnish grammar, the elative expresses origin or source and is used with nouns to indicate where something comes from. The form pankista is typically used with statements about money, information, or actions that originate at a bank, or to describe sources in more general terms.

Common usages include sentences such as rahat tulivat pankista, hän haki lainaa pankista, and siirsin varat pankista tililleni. Pankista can also modify noun phrases, as in pankista peräisin oleva tieto, meaning information originating from the bank. The elative form is a frequent way to denote source in banking and finance contexts, but it is also used more broadly to describe origins outside finance, including metaphorical sources.

Etymology: pankki is borrowed from Swedish bank, which itself derives from older European banking terms. The suffix -sta/-stä marks the elative case in Finnish.

Notes: In contrast, the inessive pankissa means in the bank, and the illative pankkiin means into the bank. Usage of pankista is common when describing the source of funds, documents, or information connected to financial institutions.

See also: pankki; elatiivi (elative) in Finnish grammar.