epäluotettavilta

epäluotettavilta is a Finnish grammatical form: it is the plural ablative form of the adjective epäluotettava, meaning “unreliable.” In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case, so epäluotettava changes to epäluotettavilta when describing plural nouns in the ablative case. This form is commonly used to express source or origin, such as “from unreliable sources” or “by unreliable actors.”

Usage examples include: Tiedot ovat peräisin epäluotettavilta lähteiltä (The information comes from unreliable sources) and Hän kuuli tarinoita epäluotettavilta ihmisiltä (He heard stories from unreliable people). The form can be attached to various plural nouns in contexts where the ablative case is appropriate, for example with lähteiltä, ihmisiltä, or toimijoilta. As a modifier, epäluotettavilta does not function as a standalone noun but rather describes the plural noun it accompanies.

In writing, epäluotettavilta signals a judgment about reliability tied to the modified noun, but it is a grammatical form rather than a value judgment on the speaker. Finnish adjectives in this paradigm produce a range of forms across cases and numbers; epäluotettava itself can appear as epäluotettavat (nominative plural), epäluotettavien (genitive plural), epäluotettavia (partitive plural), and so on, with epäluotettavilta occupying the ablative plural slot.

See also: Finnish grammar, Finnish adjectives, Finnish cases.