eurooppalaisista

eurooppalaisista is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective eurooppalainen, meaning European. It represents the elative plural form, a grammatical case used to indicate source or origin in certain sentence constructions. In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the nouns they modify, and eurooppalainen can take many endings depending on number and case. eurooppalaisista is therefore most commonly encountered when the head noun is in the elative plural.

The base meaning of eurooppalainen is “belonging to Europe” or “related to Europe.” The word is formed from the proper name Europe (Eurooppa) plus the adjectival suffix -lainen, a productive formation in Finnish for demonyms and descriptors of national or regional character. The plural elative form eurooppalaisista appears in contexts such as "eurooppalaisista maista" (from European countries) or in phrases like "puhutaan eurooppalaisista" (talk about Europeans), where the elative case governs the noun phrase.

Usage notes: eurooppalaisista is not a stand-alone noun but an inflected adjective form. It is used in formal and semi-formal Finnish discourse, including journalism, academia, and literature, to refer to people, cultures, languages, or institutions associated with Europe. Related terms include eurooppalainen (singular form) and Europe (Eurooppa) as the linguistic root.

See also: eurooppalainen, Eurooppa, Finnish language grammar, demonyms in Finnish.