Tilavasta

Tilavasta is the elative singular form of the Finnish adjective tilava, meaning spacious or roomy. In Finnish, adjectives inflect to agree with the noun they modify in number and case; when the noun is in the elative case, the adjective takes the corresponding elative form, here tilavasta.

The elative case expresses origin, source, or movement away from something. Therefore tilavasta is used to describe the source or starting point of something that is itself in the elative case. For example, tilavasta autosta means “from the spacious car.” Likewise, tilavasta talosta means “from the spacious house.” The plural form would be tilavista, as in “tilavista autoista” (from spacious cars).

Grammatical notes: tilavasta does not function as an independent word; it is a specific inflected form of tilava. When modifying a noun, the adjective must agree with that noun in case, number, and definiteness, as Finnish lacks articles and relies on case endings for grammatical information. The elative form is one of several case endings that adjectives can take.

Related concepts include the broader Finnish adjective declension and the use of the elative case to express origin or source in noun phrases. In practice, tilavasta appears in phrases describing something that originates from or comes from a spacious object or place, with the adjective matching the noun’s elative case.

See also: Finnish grammar, elative case, adjective declension.