Päivistä

Päivistä is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the plural elative of the noun päivä, meaning day. In this form, the word expresses origin, source, or reference from multiple days, as in phrases that contrast or indicate departure points from days.

In Finnish, the elative case marks motion or reference away from something, and the plural ending for this case is -istä. Therefore, päivä (singular “day”) becomes päivistä in the plural elative form. Related forms include näiden days in other cases, such as päivästä (singular elative) or päivät (nominative plural).

Usage and context: päivistä is used in contexts where the speaker refers to multiple days as a source or point of reference. It is common in more formal or written Finnish and in linguistic or grammatical descriptions. A typical example is the idiomatic expression päivistä riippumatta, meaning “regardless of the days” or “despite the days,” which demonstrates how the elative plural conveys a sense of persistence or continuity across days.

Limitations: päivistä is not as common in everyday casual speech as some other temporal constructions. In many daily conversations, speakers may prefer phrasing that uses singular forms, time spans, or different cases to express similar ideas about time, duration, or sequence.

See also: päivä (day), päivien (genitive plural), päivät (nominative plural), elatiivi (elative case) in Finnish grammar.