Samankaltaisista

Samankaltaisista is the elative plural form of the Finnish adjective samankaltaiset, meaning similar. In Finnish, adjectives decline for number and case, so samankaltaiset has several inflected forms, including samankaltaisten (genitive plural) and samankaltaisia (partitive plural). The elative plural, samankaltaisista, expresses a sense of “from similar ones” or “out of similar [things].”

Usage and function

Samankaltaisista is used with plural nouns to indicate origin or source in the elative case. It can describe things that come from groups or categories that are alike in some respect. The form is common in academic writing and in everyday Finnish when discussing data, sources, or reasons that are alike.

Examples

- Päätös tehtiin samankaltaisista syistä. (The decision was made for similar reasons.)

- Data kerättiin samankaltaisista lähteistä. (Data were collected from similar sources.)

- Keskustelu käydään samankaltaisista näkökulmista. (The discussion is conducted from similar perspectives.)

Relation to related forms

Samankaltaisista is related to samankaltaiset (nominative plural) when describing a group as a whole, samankaltaisten (genitive plural) when attributing to a group, and samankaltaisia (partitive plural) when the object is being described without a definite totality. The underlying root comes from samankaltaisuus, meaning similarity, with the adjectival suffix -inen.

Etymology

Derived from samankaltaisuus (similarity) plus the adjective suffix -inen, forming samankaltaiset, with inflectional endings such as -ista/-istä for the elative plural.

See also

samankaltaiset, samankaltaisuus

Note: Finnish adjectives do not mark gender, and noun-adjective agreements align with the noun in number and case.