kuivista
Kuivista is a Finnish grammatical form, not a standalone word. It represents the elative plural form of the adjective kuiva, meaning dry. In other words, kuivista is formed from kuiva with the elative plural suffix -ista and is used to indicate origin or source from dry things or environments.
Kuivista appears in contexts where the speaker wants to refer to something coming "from the dry" or
- kuivista olosuhteista (from the dry conditions)
- kuivista alueista (from the dry areas)
- Kuivista is not a separate dictionary entry as a standalone lexical item; it is a grammatical
- The form is mainly encountered in written, technical, or descriptive prose rather than everyday casual speech.
Kuivista illustrates Finnish’s rich case and agreement system, where adjectives can take elative plural forms to