Rannasta

Rannasta is the elative case form of the Finnish noun ranta, meaning beach or shore. In Finnish grammar, the elative case, marked by the suffix -sta/-stä, indicates origin or movement from a location. For ranta, the elative singular is rannasta and the elative plural is rannoista. This form is part of standard Finnish usage in both speech and writing.

In use, rannasta expresses origin from the shore or coastal area. It is common with verbs of movement or source, for example: Lähdin rannasta (I left from the shore) and Hän tuli rannasta (He/She came from the shore). It can also appear in phrases describing provenance, such as material from the shore, e.g., rannasta peräisin olevaa materiaalia (material originating from the shore), though such phrases are more often simplified in everyday speech.

Plural usage follows the same elative pattern but refers to multiple shores. The elative plural form is rannoista. An example is Kivet ovat rannoista peräisin (The stones originate from the shores). The elative contrasts with other location cases, such as -lta/-ltä (from a surface) and other elative forms, and is a standard part of Finnish grammar when indicating origin from a place.