Tuhansista

Tuhansista is a Finnish noun form meaning “from thousands.” It is the elative plural form of the noun tuhata (tuhat), which means thousand. In Finnish, the elative case expresses source or origin, and in the plural this is realized with the suffix -sta/-stä, attached to the stem tuhans-, yielding tuhansista.

The form is used when referring to something that comes from or is derived from a large quantity of thousands. It is common in statistical, journalistic, and descriptive contexts, especially when emphasizing the scale of a group, option, or data set. Related plural forms for tuhat include tuhannet (nominative plural), tuhansien (genitive plural), and tuhansia (partitive plural), illustrating how the word changes across cases and numbers.

Examples:

- Tuhansista vaihtoehdoista valittiin lopulta viisi. (From thousands of options, five were chosen.)

- Tuhansista ihmisistä kerätty tieto osoitti saman suuntaisen tuloksen. (Data collected from thousands of people showed the same trend.)

Notes:

- The form should not be confused with tuhansia, which is partitive plural, or tuhansien, which is genitive plural.

- In normal spoken Finnish, such constructions are more likely to appear in written reports, research summaries, or formal commentary where large-scale quantification is stressed.

See also: Finnish grammar, elative case, plural forms of tuhat, statistical Finnish.