sellaisista

Sellaisista is a Finnish word that functions as the elative plural form of the demonstrative adjective sellainen. It translates roughly as “of such [things/people]” or “from such [things/people]” and is used to refer to items that have been previously mentioned or are understood from context.

Sellaisista occurs in phrases when the noun it modifies is in the elative case, often meaning “about such” or “from such.” Examples: En halua kuulla sellaisista asioista. (I don’t want to hear about such matters.) Sellaisista ihmisistä en pidä. (I don’t like such people.) Sellaisista syistä johtuen hän vetäytyi. (Hence, for such reasons, he withdrew.)

Nuance: sellainen differs from tämä/ tältä, and from other related forms. Sellainen generally conveys a more distant or generic “such a kind of,” whereas takaisin/this-centered references are more typical with tällainen meaning “this kind.” In practical use, sellaisista tends to appear when the speaker is referring back to things already mentioned or understood in the conversation, and it governs the same elative case as the noun it accompanies.

Related forms and usage notes: sellaiset (nominative plural, “such ones”), sellainen (singular nominative, “such a”). Other inflected forms follow the same pattern in different cases and numbers, such as sellaisissa, sellaisiin, sellaisista, depending on the syntactic role of the noun.