Yksittäisistä

yksittäisistä is the elative plural form of the Finnish adjective yksittäinen, which translates as “individual,” “single,” or “separate.” In Finnish grammar the elative case denotes movement out of or away from a location, and when applied to adjectives it is used to indicate that something originates from a group of individual items. The base adjective yksittäinen is declined similarly to other Finnish adjectives, and its plural forms follow the pattern of a‑type nouns. The nominative plural is yksittäiset, the partitive plural yksittäisiä, the illative plural yksittäisiin, and the elative plural yksittäisistä.

In practice yksittäisistä appears in sentences where a speaker refers to “from the individual …” or “out of the separate …”. For example, “Oppilas oppii tiedon yksittäisistä lähteistä” means “The student learns the information from individual sources.” The form can also be found in academic or technical texts that discuss data, observations, or components taken separately from a larger set.

Because Finnish is a highly inflected language, the same root can produce many case forms, each conveying a precise spatial or abstract relationship. The elative plural yksittäisistä is therefore an example of how Finnish expresses the notion of extracting or deriving something from multiple distinct elements within a collective. Understanding this form aids learners in both reading comprehension and accurate expression when describing sources, samples, or parts that are considered individually.