kyvyistämme

Kyvyistämme is a Finnish inflected form derived from the noun kyky ("ability"). Morphologically it combines the elative plural ending -istä, which conveys "from" or "out of" in plural, with the first person plural possessive suffix -mme ("our"), so the literal meaning is "from our abilities" or "out of our abilities." Context can render it more idiomatic in English as "because of our abilities," "depending on our abilities," or "about our abilities," depending on the governing verb or phrase.

The base noun kyky has the plural form kyvyt; the elative plural kyvyistä plus the possessive marker yields kyvyistämme. Its use is common in everyday Finnish and in neutral registers where possession and source or topic are expressed without additional prepositions. For example: Se riippuu kyvyistämme ("It depends on our abilities") and Puhumme kyvyistämme ("We are talking about our abilities").

Related forms include kyvyissä (inessive plural, "in our abilities") and kyvyistämme contrasts with singular forms such as kyvystäni ("from my ability") or kyvystämme as a possible variant in certain dialects. Translation and nuance depend on syntactic context and the verb that governs the noun phrase.