kaltaista

Kaltaista is a Finnish grammatical form meaning "like, similar to" and is used to express likeness in noun phrases. It is the partitive singular form of the adjective kaltaisa, and it typically precedes the noun it modifies in a phrase to indicate that the thing is of that kind.

In Finnish, kaltaista is inflected to agree with the noun in case and number. For example, kaltaista ruokaa means "food of that kind" or "such food," and kaltaisia tavaroita would be "such goods" in the plural partitive. The word can also appear in broader constructions to emphasize a category or to indicate similarity to something else. The concept of likeness is further captured by the related noun kaltaisuus, and by other forms such as kaltaisensa (one of that kind), kaltaiseni (my kind), and kaltaiset (such kinds). The term is common in both spoken and written Finnish, and it tends to appear in descriptive or formal contexts as well as everyday speech when specifying a category.