erillisistä

Erillisistä is a Finnish adjective form meaning “from separate” or “of separate/distinct ones.” It is the elative plural form of erillinen, so it is used to describe plural nouns in the elative case, referring to things that come from or are about separate items rather than a single whole.

In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the noun in number and case. For erillinen, the forms include erilliset (nominative plural), erillisten (genitive plural), and erillisistä (elative plural). When erillisistä modifies a noun, it appears with that noun in elative plural, as in erillisistä osista (from separate parts) or erillisistä vaihtoehdoista (from separate options). The construction is common in technical, analytical, or formal language where distinctions between separate components or options are being emphasized.

Usage notes: erillisistä is primarily used before a noun in elative plural and typically denotes that the referenced items are distinct or separate from each other. It is not used as a standalone noun; its meaning depends on the noun it modifies. The term often appears in contexts such as system design, decision-making, or comparative analyses where separating elements into discrete parts or options is relevant.

Etymology: derived from the root erillinen “separate” with the standard Finnish adjectival ending -inen; its inflection follows regular Finnish adjective declension patterns.

See also: erillinen, erilliset, erillisten, erillisistä (as part of the same adjective family).