tekemisistään

Tekemisistään is a Finnish noun form derived from tekeminen, meaning the act of doing or making. The word functions to refer to the actions or deeds of a group or person, and it is used in contexts where the actions of others are the subject of discussion. In translation, tekemisistään can correspond to “from their doing,” “of their actions,” or “concerning what they did,” depending on the sentence structure.

Morphology and usage in Finnish are such that tekemisistään carries a possessive and a case relation. It typically marks that the doings belong to someone (a third-person plural or other referent) and connects the phrase to another clause or statement, often indicating source, cause, or context. This makes tekemisistään common in evaluative or analytical writing, where a writer references the actions of groups or individuals.

In practice, tekemisistään appears in reports, political discourse, journalism, and academic writing when the focus is on what a group has done. It is compatible with verbs and clauses that summarize or infer conclusions from those actions. For example, a sentence might read: “Heidän tekemisistään voidaan päätellä, että…” meaning “From their actions one can infer that…” The form thus serves as a compact way to shift emphasis to the actions of others within a larger argument or narrative.

Related forms include tekemi-nen (doing, act) and tekemisiksi (as doings/acts in some constructions). The precise case and possessive endings depend on the surrounding syntax, but tekemisistään consistently signals that the referenced actions belong to or originate from a particular group.