lehdiltä

Lehdiltä is a Finnish word that represents the elative plural form of lehti, meaning “from the newspapers” or “from the leaves,” depending on the context. Because lehti has multiple senses in Finnish—leaf or sheet, as a part of a plant or a page, and newspaper or magazine—the form lehdiltä can refer to origin from either leaves or newspapers when used in plural.

In everyday language, lehdiltä is most often used to indicate source material or information that comes from newspapers. For example, tietoja peräisin lehdiltä (“information derived from the newspapers”). It can also be used in botanical or agricultural contexts to mean origin from the leaves of plants, such as näytteitä kerättiin lehdiltä (“samples were collected from the leaves”).

The meaning of lehdiltä is determined by the surrounding words, since lehti is polysemous. Without context, the phrase may refer to multiple newspapers or to multiple leaves. This ambiguity is typical for inflected forms that reflect a plural elative.

Examples

- Nämä tiedot ovat peräisin lehdiltä.

- Lehdiltä saamien artikkelien mukaan tapahtuma järjestettiin viime viikolla.

- Tutkimuksessa kerättiin näytteitä lehdiltä, jotta niiden koostumusta voitaisiin analysoida.

See also

Lehti, a word with several related meanings including leaf, page, and newspaper.