Täydellisestä

Täydellisestä is the elative singular form of the Finnish adjective täydellinen, which means complete or perfect. It is used when the noun it modifies is in the elative case, and it often expresses origin or movement from that noun, for example in the phrase täydellisestä vastauksesta “from a perfect/complete answer.”

In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case, so täydellinen has a full set of inflected forms. Common singular forms include: nominative täydellinen, genitive täydellisen, partitive täydellistä, inessive täydellisessä, elative täydellisestä, illative täydelliseen, adessive täydellisellä, ablative täydelliseltä, allative täydelliselle, essive täydellisenä, and translative täydelliseksi. The elative form, shown by täydellisestä, is one of several case forms used to convey precise grammatical meaning.

Etymology and meaning: täydellinen is a native Finnish adjective formed with the stem täysi, meaning “full,” plus the suffix -ellinen, which creates adjectives meaning “full of” or “characterized by.” The elative form täydellisestä inherits this meaning and is used in contexts describing movement from or source of a complete or perfect quality.

Usage and style: täydellisestä appears mainly in descriptive or formalwriting, academic prose, and contexts where a noun is governed by the elative case. As with other Finnish adjectives, its exact form must agree with the noun it describes in case and number.

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