kylmästä

Kylmästä is a Finnish word form, the elative case of the adjective and noun kylmä ("cold"). The elative case, marked by the suffix -sta / -stä (chosen according to Finnish vowel harmony), typically expresses movement out of something, origin, separation or cause. As a case form, kylmästä can mean "from the cold" or "because of the cold" depending on context.

Grammatical use and examples:

- Movement/origin: Hän tuli kylmästä huoneesta. (He came from the cold room.)

- Cause: Ikkunat huurustuivat kylmästä. (The windows fogged because of the cold.)

- As part of a nominal phrase: Kylmästä puhuminen saa ihmiset suunnittelemaan lämmitystä. (Talking about the cold makes people plan heating.)

The form is produced by adding the elative suffix to the stem kylmä-; similar case forms exist for other adjectives and nouns (e.g., talosta "from the house"). Related inflected forms include kylmä (nominative), kylmää (partitive), kylmässä (inessive), kylmään (illative) and kylmäksi (translative).

Etymology and cognates:

Kylmä derives from Proto-Finnic roots and has cognates in other Finnic languages, such as Estonian külm. Its basic meaning and morphological behavior are characteristic of Uralic language case systems.

Usage notes:

Kylmästä appears in everyday speech and writing whenever the elative case is required with the concept of cold; idiomatic expressions and compound structures may alter its precise translation into other languages.