huoneista

Huoneista is the elative plural form of the Finnish noun huone, meaning "rooms." It is used to express origin or movement away from multiple rooms, and translates roughly as "from the rooms." As a case form, huoneista belongs to the elative, which marks source or departure from a place. The suffix -sta/-stä creates the plural elative from the plural stem huone-.

In Finnish grammar, huoneista forms part of a larger system of locative cases. The corresponding singular elative is huoneesta ("from the room"), while other related forms include inessive huoneissa ("in the rooms") and illative huoneisiin ("into the rooms"). These forms help indicate location, movement, and origin relative to a noun.

Usage notes: huoneista commonly appears in contexts involving removal, extraction, or reporting about multiple rooms. It can describe items being taken away from several rooms, changes occurring across several rooms, or sources located in multiple rooms. The word is neutral and is used in everyday language as well as in written text.

Examples:

- Remontin aikana huoneista on poistettu kaikki huonekalut. (During the renovation, all furniture has been removed from the rooms.)

- Rakennusluvan yhteydessä todettiin kosteutta useista huoneista. (In the building permit report, moisture was noted in several rooms.)

See also: huone, huoneisto, elatiivi (the grammatical case).