Sijainnasta

Sijainnasta is the elative form of the Finnish noun sijainti, meaning location or position. In Finnish grammar, the elative case expresses origin, source, or reference to a place, and sijainnasta is used when something relates to or comes from a location. The form is common in everyday language and in technical contexts to indicate a relationship to a place.

In practical use, sijainnasta appears in phrases that describe dependence on or information about a location. For example, sijainnasta riippuen means “depending on the location,” and is used to indicate that factors such as travel time, cost, or availability can vary with where something is located. Tietoja sijainnasta means “information about the location” and is frequently used in maps, real estate, logistics, and geographic information systems.

Common contexts include geography and cartography, real estate and property listings, and planning or logistics where location-based factors matter. The term helps distinguish statements that refer to the place itself from those that refer to other aspects, such as time or quantity.

Etymologically, sijainnasta is formed from sijainti (location) with the elative suffix -sta/-stä, following Finnish noun declension rules. As a grammatical form, it is primarily a functional part of speech used to anchor statements to a specific place or to discuss information originating from a location.

See also: sijainti, elatiivi and other Finnish case forms; geographic information systems; cartography; real estate terminology.