Tärkeimmistä

Tärkeimmistä is a Finnish inflected form derived from the adjective tärkein, meaning the most important. It is not a standalone noun but a case and number form that accompanies a noun. In practice, tärkeimmistä appears with a noun in a plural form and a grammatical case, most commonly in genitive or partitive contexts. The exact ending varies with the case of the noun it modifies.

In everyday and formal Finnish, tärkeimmistä is used to indicate priority or significance of the associated noun. It often appears in phrases such as important matter or reason, for example: tärkeimmistä asioista (from/about the most important matters) or tärkeimpien syiden (of the main reasons). The form is a typical example of how Finnish adjectives decline to agree with the noun they describe.

Common usage includes journalism, politics, academic writing, and any discourse that seeks to emphasize priority. Because Finnish relies on agreement between adjectives and nouns for case and number, tärkeimmistä will change to match the noun it accompanies, producing forms such as tärkeimmistä asioista, tärkeimpien syiden, or related constructions in different sentences.

Etymology and relation to other degrees: tärkeimmistä is part of the superlative family built from tärkeä (important). The base superlative muodostaen tärkein, with plural and case endings producing forms like tärkeimmät (nominative plural), tärkeimpien (genitive plural), and tärkeimmistä (plural partitive/elative forms). The word is widely used in Finnish-language texts to stress importance.