merkityistä

Merkityistä is a Finnish inflected form of the noun merkitys, which conveys meaning, significance, or importance. The base word merkitys refers to what a thing means or the content that gives it its sense. Like many Finnish nouns, merkitys changes shape across cases and numbers, and merkityistä represents the elative plural form, used to express movement from or source in plural contexts.

In practice, merkityistä appears in phrases where the elative case is required and the subject is plural. It often functions to indicate “from meanings” or, more commonly in context, to refer to topics or matters with significance. For example, in sentences discussing interpretation, importance, or evaluation, you may encounter merkityistä in combination with another plural noun (such as asioista or näkökohdista) to convey “about meaningful matters” or “from meaningful matters,” depending on the verb and preposition governing the phrase.

Etymologically, the form derives from the noun merkitys and the standard elative plural suffix -istä, which is used for plural sources or origins. The concept is closely related to the related forms merkitys (meaning), merkittävä (significant), and merkityksellinen (meaningful). In Finnish writing, merkitystä and merkityksen are more common in singular forms, while merkityistä appears in plural contexts requiring an elative interpretation.

See also: merkitys, merkittävä, merkityksellinen, Finnish grammar, cases.