Tölkeistä

Tölkeistä is a Finnish inflected form of the noun tölkki, meaning a can or tin can. Specifically, tölkeistä is the elative plural form, used to express origin or source from multiple cans, as in “from the cans” or “out of the cans.” Finnish uses the elative case to indicate movement away from or a source starting point, and the plural ending -stä/-stä marks that this refers to several items.

Usage and meaning

- Tölkeistä denotes origin or source when referring to more than one can. It can describe material derived from cans, an action performed with contents taken from cans, or information coming from cans in a broader sense.

- Common contexts include recycling, packaging, and manufacturing, for example in sentences about metal recycled from cans or products made from material derived from cans.

Related forms

- tölkit (nominative plural)

- tölkkien (genitive plural)

- tölkkejä (partitive plural)

- tölkeissä (inessive plural)

- tölkkien kierrätys (recycling of cans) and similar phrases use the same root in different cases.

Etymology

- The word tölkki is a native Finnish noun for a metal can. The form tölkeistä reflects standard Finnish plural elativity. The etymology of tölkki itself is not part of this inflection description, but the term is widely used in everyday Finnish, especially in contexts involving food packaging and recycling.

See also

- tölkki

- kierrätys

- tölkkikierrätys

- Finnish grammatical cases, particularly elative and plural forms

Tölkeistä thus functions as a grammatical tool to specify origin or source in reference to multiple cans within a neutral, informative context.