rikkaasta

Rikkaasta is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective rikas, which means wealthy or rich. It is not a standalone word with its own meaning, but the elative singular form used before a noun to express the noun phrase in the elative case or to convey a sense of “from the wealthy” in phrases such as from a wealthy source.

In practice, rikkaasta appears in phrases where the accompanying noun is in the elative (and thus the adjective takes the corresponding ending). Examples include rikkaasta perheestä (from a wealthy family), rikkaasta maasta (from a wealthy country), and rikkaasta elämästä (from a rich life). Finnish adjectives are declined to agree with the noun in case and number, so rikas will have several related forms depending on the grammatical context.

Other inflected forms of rikas are used for different cases before nouns, such as rikkaan (genitive singular) and rikasta (partitive singular). The base form rikas and related forms are common in both straightforward descriptive uses and more figurative expressions about wealth, abundance, or prosperity.

Etymology traces rikkaasta to the Finnish adjective rikas, meaning “wealthy.” It is a part of standard Finnish and is not a proper noun. The form is typically encountered in written and spoken language when indicating origin or association with wealth within a noun phrase.

See also: rikas, rikkaus, rikkaasti.