Tilapäiseltä

Tilapäiseltä is the ablative singular form of the Finnish adjective tilapäinen, meaning temporary. It is used when the adjective modifies a noun that is in the ablative case, forming a noun phrase that expresses origin or source. The standard base is tilapäinen, and in the ablative singular the form becomes tilapäiseltä.

In practice, tilapäiseltä appears in phrases describing origin, source, or attribution from something temporary. A common example is tilapäiseltä työntekijältä, meaning from a temporary employee. The construction adheres to Finnish adjective declension patterns for -inen adjectives, where the adjective bears the case endings that the noun would otherwise carry.

Tilapäiseltä contrasts with tilapäisesti, which is an adverb meaning temporarily and modifying verbs or entire clauses rather than a noun. Thus tilapäiseltä is not interchangeable with tilapäisesti; the former is a grammatical case form of an adjective, while the latter is a word classed as an adverb.

Related terms include tilapäinen, the base adjective meaning temporary, and tilapäisesti, the corresponding adverb. The use of tilapäiseltä is mainly found in formal or written Finnish, particularly in contexts requiring explicit case marking of noun phrases indicating source or origin.

See also

- tilapäinen

- tilapäisesti

Notes

- Tilapäiseltä is one of several ablative singular forms for -inen adjectives in Finnish; other case forms change the ending of tilapäinen accordingly.

- Usage typically involves a following noun in the ablative case, as in tilapäiseltä työntekijältä.