Reiästä

Reiästä is the elatiivi singular form of the Finnish noun reikä, which means hole or gap. The elatiivi is a grammatical case used to indicate origin, source, or an outlet, roughly corresponding to “from a …” in English. In practical Finnish, reiästä is used to describe something that comes out of or goes through a hole or opening.

Form and usage details: Reiästä is formed by attaching the elatiivi suffix -sta/-stä to the stem of reikä, yielding a form commonly used with verbs of movement, change of state, or passage. It is a case form, not a standalone dictionary entry, and it occurs with nouns referring to a hole or opening. It typically answers questions like “from where?” in contexts involving origin or exit through a hole.

Examples: Vesi valuu reiästä. (Water is flowing from a hole.) Ilma pääsee reiästä. (Air can get through a hole.) In these sentences, reiästä marks the source or exit point of the action.

Notes: Reiästä is most often encountered in descriptive or technical contexts (e.g., plumbing, construction, geology) where holes or openings are discussed. It is one of several Finnish locative cases and should be distinguished from nominative reikä (the basic form) and other cases like reiästä’s related forms.

See also: reikä, elatiivi.