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
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”
Selkä antoinen root is selkeä; other plural forms (nominative selkeät, genitive selkeiden, partitive selkeitä) illustrate standard