selkeistä

Selkeistä is the elative plural form of the Finnish adjective selkeä, meaning clear or easy to understand. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify, and selkeä has several plural forms: nominative selkeät, genitive selkeiden, partitive selkeitä, and elative selkeistä. The elative plural is used to indicate origin, source, or basis, typically with plural nouns, for example selkeistä ohjeista (from the clear instructions) or selkeistä tilastoista (from the clear statistics).

Usage of selkeistä occurs mainly in noun phrases in elative, where the adjective describes the source or basis of something. It is common in formal and written Finnish when the speaker wants to specify that something comes from, or is based on, clearly defined items. Since it is an inflected form, selkeistä almost always appears together with a following plural noun in the elative case.

Examples of common phrases include:

- selkeistä ohjeista huolimatta, meaning “despite the clear instructions”

- selkeistä tilastoista tehty yhteenveto, meaning “a summary based on the clear statistics”

- selkeistä esimerkeistä johtuva päätelmä, meaning “a conclusion drawn from the clear examples”

Notes and related forms:

Selkä antoinen root is selkeä; other plural forms (nominative selkeät, genitive selkeiden, partitive selkeitä) illustrate standard Finnish adjective declension. Selkeistä principally functions to modify a plural noun in the elative, signaling origin, basis, or source of something within a sentence.