vedestä

Vedestä is the elative singular form of the Finnish noun vesi, meaning water. In Finnish grammar, the elative case expresses origin or movement from a source, and vedestä is used specifically to indicate something coming out of or taken from water. It is commonly employed when water is the source of extraction or emergence.

Common uses include sentences about objects found or taken from water, and actions performed from a water environment. For example: Esine on vedestä nostettu. (The object was pulled from the water.) Kalat nousevat vedestä. (The fish rise from the water.) Näytteet otettiin vedestä. (Samples were taken from the water.)

Vedestä contrasts with related forms of ves i: vedens genitive is veden, inessive is vedessä (in the water), and partitive is vettä (water as an object). The plural elative form is vesistä (from waters). These forms illustrate how Finnish marks location, source, and quantity through case endings rather than prepositions.

In usage, vedestä is appropriate for physical sources like rivers, lakes, seas, or containers of water. It is not typically used for abstract or metaphorical “from water” expressions; those would rely on different constructions or contexts. The term is a standard component of everyday Finnish grammar and appears in writing and speech to specify origin from water.