Verestä

Verestä is the elative singular form of the Finnish noun veri, meaning blood. It functions to express origin, source, or material, roughly translating to “from blood” or “out of blood” in English. In Finnish grammar, the elative case is formed with the suffix -stä/-stä, and for word stems like veri the form becomes verestä.

Common uses include indicating the source of a sample or material in scientific or medical contexts. For example, verestä otettu näyte means a sample taken from blood. The form is frequently encountered in written language, especially in technical or formal texts, where precise source specification is important. In idiomatic or everyday speech, more concrete phrasing is often preferred, such as stating that something is “blood-derived” or simply describing the sample without relying on the elative form.

In related forms, the nominative is veri (blood), the inessive is veressä (in blood), and the elative as used here is verestä (out of blood/from blood). The word participates in normal Finnish noun inflection and does not constitute a separate lexical item beyond its inflected form. It is commonly encountered in medical, anatomical, and laboratory discourse, as well as in discussions of blood-related topics in Finnish.

See also: veri, elatiivi (the grammatical case used to form verestä), Finnish noun declension.