Pyöreästä

Pyöreästä is the elative singular form of the Finnish adjective pyöreä, meaning round or circular. In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the nouns they modify, and the elative case is used to express origin, source, or movement away from something. Therefore pyöreästä talosta translates as “from a round house,” with the adjective inflected to match talo in the elative singular. For plural nouns the corresponding form is pyöreistä, as in pyöreistä taloista meaning “from round houses.”

Usage and scope: Pyöreästä is used whenever the noun is in the elative case and the speaker attributes roundness to it. It can describe physical shape (roundness of an object) or more abstract forms connected to the noun. The same pattern applies to other elative forms of the adjective: pyöreästä talosta (singular) and pyöreistä taloista (plural).

Examples:

- He lähtivät pyöreästä talosta. (They left from the round house.)

- Kuvan ulkoinen muoto on pyöreästä muodosta. (The external shape is from a round form.)

Relation to other forms: The basic positive form is pyöreä; the comparative is pyöreämpi, and the superlative is pyöreäin or pyöreimmä, depending on construction. The elative singular ending is -stä, while the elative plural is -istä.

See also: Finnish grammar, Finnish adjectives, Elative case, Adjective declension.