lopullisista

Lopullisista is the elative plural form of the Finnish adjective lopullinen, meaning final or definitive. In Finnish, adjectives decline to reflect number, case, and their relationship to a noun. The ending -is-ta corresponds to the elative plural, used when describing a plural noun in the elative case, indicating movement from or origin relating to those items.

A typical usage is to place lopullisista directly before a plural noun in the elative, for example lopullisista päätöksistä meaning “from the final decisions.” Another common construction is lopullisista syistä, which can be translated as “for reasons of a final nature” or simply “for final reasons.” The form is thus an attributive adjective that agrees with its noun in number and case.

Lopullisista belongs to a broader set of inflected forms for lopullinen, including lopulliset (nominative plural), lopullisten (genitive plural), lopullisia (partitive plural), and lopullisissa (inessive plural). These forms illustrate how Finnish adjectives change to match different grammatical roles rather than gender or number in isolation.

Etymology-wise, lopullinen derives from loppu, meaning end, with the suffix -llinen forming an adjective meaning “pertaining to the end.” In usage, lopullisista is most common in formal, written, or official contexts, where precise reference to multiple items in the elative case is needed. It is not a stand-alone noun but a declined adjective form.