Pöydiltä

Pöydiltä is a Finnish word that means from the tables. It is the elative plural form of pöytä, meaning that it expresses origin or movement away from multiple surfaces.

In Finnish grammar, nouns inflect for number and case. The base noun pöytä becomes pöydät in the nominative plural. To form the elative plural, the suffix -iltä is added to the plural stem, producing pöydiltä. This suffix marks origin or source from several tables and aligns with typical elative plural patterns in Finnish.

Pöydiltä is used when referring to things taken, moved, or originating from more than one table. For example:

- Ruokailuvälineet kerättiin pöydiltä. (The cutlery was gathered from the tables.)

- Oppilaat nousivat pöydiltä ja siirsivät tavaroita. (The students stood up from the tables and moved objects.)

Compared forms include pöydältä (from the table, singular elative) and pöydät (tables, nominative plural). Pöydiltä also commonly appears in contexts describing physical movement away from surfaces or sources, as well as in descriptions of collective origins involving multiple tables.

See also:

- Pöytä, the singular form meaning table

- Elatiivinen infinitiivi and elatiivi case in Finnish grammar for general understanding of from/away from constructions