ketteristä

Ketteristä is the elative plural form of the Finnish adjective ketterä, meaning agile or nimble. It is used with plural nouns in the elative case to indicate origin or source, roughly translating to “from agile ones” or “of agile ones.” The term appears frequently in Finnish business and software development discourse when referring to agile teams, practices, or methods.

In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the nouns they modify. The elative plural suffix -istä marks origin for plural phrases, so phrases like ketteristä tiimeistä (from agile teams), ketteristä menetelmistä (from agile methods), and ketteristä ihmisistä (from agile people) are standard. The corresponding singular forms would be ketterästä tiimistä, ketterisestä menetelmästä, etc.

Usage notes: ketteristä is typically not used as a stand-alone noun. It functions as an inflected adjective within noun phrases describing a plural group or practice in the elative case. The term is common in contexts that emphasize agility, iterative work, and flexible collaboration.

See also: ketterä, agility, agile software development.