kuopista

Kuopista is a Finnish noun form meaning “from the holes.” It is the elative plural form of kuoppa, which means hole or pit. In Finnish grammar the elative case expresses movement from inside something outward or origin, and the plural elative attaches to the plural stem kuopat to yield kuopista.

The word is most often encountered in descriptions of pits, holes, or depressions in natural or man-made contexts. It appears in geological, archaeological, construction, and field-report language, where researchers or observers refer to items or conditions originating from multiple holes or pits. By contrast, the singular elative would be kuopasta, as in “from a hole.”

Examples of usage include:

- Kuopista löytyi vanhoja kolikoita. (Old coins were found from the holes.)

- Vesi valuu kuopista. (Water flows out from the holes.)

Related forms include kuoppa (singular nominative), kuopan (genitive), kuopassa (inessive, “in the hole”), kuoppaan (illative, “into a hole”), and kuopat (nominative plural, “holes”). The elative plural kuopista is distinct and used specifically when referring to “from the holes” in a plural sense.

In summary, kuopista is a grammatical form used to indicate origin or source from multiple holes, primarily within descriptive or technical Finnish writing.