kehityksellisistä

Kehityksellisistä is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the elative plural of the adjective kehityksellinen, meaning “developmental.” In use, kehityksellisistä modifies nouns to indicate origin, relation, or perspective connected to development, typically in academic or scientific writing.

In practice, kehityksellisistä appears in phrases such as kehityksellisistä näkökulmista, meaning “from developmental perspectives,” or kehityksellisistä tekijöistä, meaning “from developmental factors.” The form is common when discussing phenomena in a developmental context, across disciplines such as psychology, biology, and education, where authors refer to developmental aspects, factors, or viewpoints in plural, general terms rather than citing a single source.

Etymologically, kehityksellinen is built from the stem kehitys, meaning development, with the adjectival suffix -ellinen to form “developmental.” The elative plural ending -is- + -tä/ -istä marks the sense of originating from or deriving from multiple developmental sources. This grammatical pattern is typical for Finnish adjectives and allows precise expression of developmental associations in complex sentences.

While not a standalone technical term, kehityksellisistä commonly appears in scholarly Finnish to situate statements within a developmental framework. Its usage helps distinguish developmental perspectives from other analytic angles and clarifies that discussed factors, processes, or viewpoints relate to development over time or in a developmental context.

See also: kehitys, kehityksellinen, kehityspsykologia, kehitysbiologia.

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