Ylläpitämästä

Ylläpitämästä is a Finnish grammatical form that derives from the verb ylläpitää, meaning to maintain. The form represents the elative case (-stä) attached to the participial stem suunniteltu as ylläpitämä, and it expresses origin, source, or a relation to maintenance in a theoretical or descriptive sense. In practice, this exact form is rare outside linguistic descriptions, and speakers normally use other constructions such as ylläpitämisestä (the genitive/partitive of the noun or the gerund-like form) or ylläpito (maintenance) to convey similar ideas.

Morphology and function:

- Root: ylläpitää (to maintain).

- Participial stem: ylläpitämä, which functions as an adjective or a nominalized form referring to something related to maintenance.

- Case: elative -stä, yielding ylläpitämästä, indicating “from being maintained” or “from maintenance” in a grammatical sense.

- Register: primarily literary or linguistic; not common in everyday speech.

Relation to other terms:

- Ylläpitää: the verb “to maintain.”

- Ylläpito: the noun “maintenance.”

- Ylläpitämisestä / ylläpitämisestä: more standard noun forms used to refer to maintenance in abstract or process-focused contexts.

- Other related forms include yleisesti used phrases that describe maintenance activities or maintenance state without using the elative form.

Notes:

- Ylläpitämästä is best understood within Finnish morphology as an example of how elative case interacts with participial stems; its practical use is limited, and native texts more often employ ylläpitämisestä or ylläpito to express related meanings.

See also: ylläpitää, ylläpito, ylläpitämisestä, Suomen kielioppi, gerundit.