vaihteesta

Vaihteesta is the elative singular form of the Finnish noun vaihde, which translates to gear or transmission in mechanical contexts. The base word can refer to a single gear in a vehicle’s transmission or to the gear system as a whole. In Finnish grammar, the elative case signals origin, source, or a topic of discussion, so vaihteesta commonly means either “from the gear” or, more often in discourse, “about the gear,” depending on the sentence.

Usage examples illustrate its role as a topic marker. In everyday technical talk, you might hear: “Puhumme vaihteesta” (We are talking about the gear) or “Lisätietoja vaihteesta löytyy oppaasta” (More information about the gear can be found in the handbook).

Morphology and related forms: the elative singular form is -sta/-stä appended to the stem vaihde, yielding vaihteesta. The genitive singular is vaihteen, the partitive singular vaihdetta, and the plural forms include vaihteet (nominative) and vaihteista (elative plural). The word remains primarily technical in everyday Finnish, though it also appears in automotive and engineering texts.

Notes: Vaihteesta should be distinguished from similar-sounding terms such as vaiheesta (concerning a phase), which belong to different semantic fields. In most contexts, vaihteesta signals topic or origin and is not used to denote a value or position beyond that. Overall, it functions as a specialized grammatical form used when discussing gears or transmission systems.