hätäisestä

Hätäisestä is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective hätäinen. The base adjective hätäinen describes something related to hätä, meaning distress or urgency. In Finnish, adjectives decline for case and number, so hätäinen has several forms corresponding to different grammatical contexts. Hätäisestä is the elative singular form, used when the modified noun is in the elative case (roughly “from/about” the relative state).

Usage and meaning

In practice, hätäisestä occurs in phrases where both the adjective and the noun it modifies appear in the elative, for example hätäisestä tilanteesta, meaning “from a distressing/emergency situation.” The sense conveyed is that the situation or state is urgent or distressing. The form is more likely to be found in formal, literary, or dialect-influenced Finnish than in everyday speech.

Relation to other forms

The adverbial counterpart is hätäisesti, meaning hastily or urgently. Other related forms include hätäinen (the base form), which can appear in different cases to modify nouns, and hätäisyys, a noun capturing the quality of urgency or distress.

Etymology

Hätäisestä derives from hätä, meaning distress or emergency, with the adjectival suffix -inen and case-specific endings. This type of inflection is characteristic of Finnish adjectives in the -inen group.

See also

hätä, hätäinen, hätäisesti, hätäisyys

Note

Hätäisestä is relatively specialized and may not appear in everyday language outside specific literary or formal contexts.