Vaikeista
Vaikeista is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the elative plural of the adjective vaikea, meaning difficult. It is used when the adjective precedes a plural noun in the elative case, and it signals “from the difficulties” or “about the difficulties.” The elative plural suffix in Finnish is -ista or -istä, chosen according to vowel harmony, and attached to the stem of the adjective.
In typical usage, vaikeista does not stand alone; it appears as part of a larger noun phrase
- Vaikeista expresses a relation to difficulties in the elative plural, commonly translated as “from the difficulties”
- The form is used with a following plural noun in the elative case; ellipses where the noun
- The concept is purely grammatical; there is no separate lexical entry for a standalone word “vaikeista”
Overall, vaikeista is a routine inflectional form in Finnish that illustrates how adjectives agree with nouns