Tiheistä

Tiheistä is the elative plural form of the Finnish adjective tiheä, which means dense or thick. It is used to describe plural nouns in the elative case, indicating origin or source, roughly translating to “from the dense/thick …” in English. For example, tiheistä metsistä means “from the dense forests.”

In Finnish, adjectives decline to match the noun they describe in number and case. The elative plural ending is -ista/-istä, so tiheä becomes tiheistä when used with a plural noun in the elative. The corresponding forms for tiheä in other cases include tiheä (nominative singular), tiheän (genitive singular), tiheää (partitive singular), tiheät (nominative plural), and tiheitä (partitive plural). The elative singular form is tiheästä.

Usage and nuance: tiheistä is commonly found in descriptive writing about natural environments, such as forests, vegetation, or crowding conditions, and in any context where something is being described as originating from or coming from dense or thick surroundings. For instance, Tiheistä pensaista tihkuu tuoksu translates roughly as “From the thick bushes wafts a scent.”

Etymology and classification: tiheä is a basic Finnish adjective meaning dense or thick, and tiheistä is one of its inflected forms. The form is not a separate lexical item but a grammatical variant used to fit the elative plural context.

See also: tiheä, tiheämpi, tiheimmä, tiheät, tiheitä.