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kirjaimista

Kirjaimista is a Finnish word-form belonging to the noun kirjaimet, which means letters or characters. It is the plural elative case, used to express origin or source, so kirjaimista translates roughly to “from the letters” or “of the letters.”

Grammatical note: Kirjaimista is one of the plural cases of kirjaimet. Other plural forms include kirjaimet

Usage: The elative plural kirjaimista is used in contexts where the source or basis of something is

Examples: Sanat muodostuvat kirjaimista. Tiedot voidaan päätellä kirjaimista, kuten kirjoitusmerkkeihin viittaamalla. Note that kirjaimista specifically marks

See also: kirjaimet, kirjaimia, kirjainten. Etymology: kirjaimet derives from the Finnish root related to writing and

(nominative),
kirjainten
(genitive),
and
kirjaimia
(partitive).
The
elative
form
shows
where
something
comes
from,
rather
than
what
it
is
directly.
specified
as
the
letters
themselves.
This
appears
in
linguistic
descriptions,
discussions
of
typography
or
encoding,
and
explanations
of
how
words
or
strings
are
formed
from
individual
characters.
It
may
also
occur
in
analyses
of
coded
messages
or
handwritten
text,
where
information
is
understood
to
derive
from
the
letters
used.
origin
from
the
letters,
rather
than
listing
the
letters
themselves
as
objects.
script,
with
standard
plural
and
case
suffixes
forming
the
various
grammatical
cases,
including
the
elative
kirjaimista.