tummasta
Tummasta is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective tumma, meaning dark. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they describe in case and number, so when the noun is in the elative case (the form used to express movement from or origin from something), the adjective also takes the corresponding elative form. The elative singular of tumma is tummasta.
- tummasta metsästä translates to “from the dark forest.”
- tummasta yöstä translates to “from the dark night.”
- tummasta väristä translates to “from a dark color.”
These examples show how tummasta combines with a noun in elative (metsästä, yöstä, väristä) to indicate origin
- Tummasta serves as a descriptive modifier before a noun in the elative, conveying the sense that
- The form is limited to contexts where the noun is in elative; elsewhere, the adjective will take
- Tumma comes from Finnish roots meaning dark or dim. The elative suffix -sta/-stä is a standard
- tumma, elati (elative case), Finnish grammar, Finnish adjectives.
In summary, tummasta is the elative singular form of tumma, used to describe something that comes