pienikokoisista

Pienikokoisista is a Finnish grammatical form, specifically the elative plural of the adjective pienikokoinen, which means small-sized or compact. It is used to describe multiple entities that are small in size when the phrase is in the elative case, indicating origin from or about those entities. The form combines the stem pienikokois- with the elative plural suffix -ista.

In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case, so pienikokoisista appears only with plural nouns in the elative. For example, pienikokoisista eläimistä means “from small-sized animals,” and pienikokoisista rakennelmista means “from small-sized structures.” The elative sense can convey sources, from where something comes or is observed, or a topic related to those entities.

Typical usage includes descriptive writing in scientific, technical, or journalistic contexts, where researchers or reporters refer to observations or data originating from or pertaining to small-sized items. It also appears in everyday language when contrasting small-sized objects with larger ones.

Examples:

- Kuvassa näkyvät pienikokoisista eläimistä otetut kuvat. (The pictures in the image are taken of small animals.)

- Tutkimus perustuu pienikokoisista rakennelmista kerättyyn dataan. (The study is based on data collected from small structures.)

Notes: pienikokoisista is the elative plural form; other case forms exist for pienikokoinen (e.g., pienikokoinen, pienikokoiset, pienikokoisten). The term is mainly a grammatical category rather than a standalone lexical word, and its meaning derives from the base adjective pienikokoinen.