Perinnästä

Perinnästä is the elative case form of the Finnish noun perintä. In Finnish grammar, the elative indicates origin, roughly translating to “from the inheritance” or “from the collection” in English. The noun perintä has several related senses in modern Finnish, most notably inheritance—the assets and obligations that pass to heirs after a person’s death—and debt collection, the process of pursuing payment of overdue debts.

In legal and financial contexts, perintä is used in terms such as perintövero (inheritance tax), perintätoimisto (debt-collection agency), and perintöoikeus (rights related to inheritance). The elative form perinnästä appears in phrases describing origin or source, for example perinnästä johtuvat velvoitteet (obligations arising from the inheritance) or perinnästä saadut varat (assets obtained from the inheritance). Although perintä can refer to heritage in a cultural sense, in everyday use the concept is more often tied to inheritance and debt collection; the word perintö is the more common term for cultural or familial heritage.

See also perintö, perintävero, perintätoimisto.