puhdasta

Puhdasta is a Finnish word meaning clean or pure. It is the partitive singular form of the adjective puhdas. In Finnish grammar, adjectives decline for case and number, and the partitive form is used with mass nouns and when indicating an indefinite quantity or quality.

The most common use of puhdasta is with non-count nouns in the partitive, for example: puhdasta vettä (clean water), puhdasta ilmaa (clean air), puhdasta maitoa (clean milk). These phrases emphasize quality or purity rather than a definite amount. Puhdasta can also appear in metaphorical or evaluative expressions, often in product descriptions or poetic language, to stress high purity or cleanliness.

In contrast, the nominative singular form of the adjective is puhdas, as in puhdas vesi (clean water) when referring to a definite, countable noun in the nominative. Finnish adjectives therefore function as grammatical forms rather than standalone nouns, with puhdasta serving a specific syntactic role in sentences.

Notes on morphology: puhdasta represents the partitive singular; other inflected forms exist for different cases and numbers (for example, the plural partitive forms use puhtaita, among other endings). The word is primarily a grammatical form of the root puhdas and is not typically used as an independent lexical item outside its role in a sentence.

See also: puhdas, puhdistus, Finnish grammar, partitive case.