porkkanasta

Porkkanasta is the elative singular form of the Finnish noun porkkana, meaning carrot. In Finnish grammar, the elative case (suffix -sta/-stä) expresses origin, source, or material. In everyday language, porkkanasta is commonly used to indicate that something is made from carrots or uses carrot as a base ingredient.

In cooking and recipe contexts, porkkanasta functions as a descriptive basis: a dish described as made from carrots or using carrot as its key ingredient. Examples include phrases such as porkkanasta tehty keitto (a soup made from carrots) and porkkanasta puristettu mehu (carrot juice pressed from carrots). The form can also appear in compound expressions like porkkanasta tehty muusi (carrot mash) or porkkanasta saatava maku (the taste derived from carrots). The elative form thus helps specify material sources without naming the plural noun explicitly.

Grammatically, porkkanasta is used with verbs or adjectives to indicate the material or origin of the referenced item. The corresponding plural form is porkkanoista, used when referring to the source material in a plural sense, for example, "jäämään porkkanoista tehtyjä tuotteita" (products made from carrots).

Relation to other forms is straightforward: porkkana is the base noun; partitive form is porkkanaa, used for an unspecified quantity; elative form is porkkanasta, used for origin or material; plural elative is porkkanoista. The term is common in everyday Finnish and is primarily a grammatical construction rather than a separate concept.

See also: Finnish grammar, elative case, Finnish cuisine.