pöydistä

Pöydistä is the elative plural form of the Finnish noun pöytä, meaning “tables.” It is used to express origin or source from multiple tables, so the basic translation is “from the tables.” As a plural form, it contrasts with pöydästä, the singular elative meaning “from the table.”

In Finnish grammar, pöytä is a native noun with plural nominative pöydät. To form the elative plural, the plural stem pöydät takes the suffix -istä, resulting in pöydistä. This suffixing pattern is part of the general elative case system in Finnish, where -stä or -stä variants mark “from” and reflect vowel harmony.

Pöydistä is commonly used when referring to multiple tables as the source of objects, information, or actions. It appears in contexts such as descriptions of rooms, events, or scenes where items are being moved, found, or removed from several tables. For example: “Pöydistä löytyivät vanhoja muistiinpanoja,” meaning “From the tables, old notes were found.” Another example: “Pöydistä on kerätty melko paljon roinaa” (From the tables, quite a bit of junk has been gathered), though more natural wording might be chosen in everyday speech depending on context.

Related forms include pöydästä (singular elative), pöydistä (plural elative), and the base plural pöydät. The possessive and other cases follow the same stem, with appropriate suffixes, producing forms such as pöytiemme (our tables) or pöydistäsi (your tables, informal). Pöydistä complements discussions of location, origin, or extraction in plural references.