virheiltä

Virheiltä is Finnish and represents the elative plural form of the noun virhe, meaning a mistake or error. In this form it generally signals origin or source, i.e., “from mistakes.” The singular elative is virheeltä, while the plural elative is virheiltä. In everyday Finnish the elative plural is commonly used to refer to what mistakes teach us or where problems originate, especially in formal or written contexts.

Usage and nuance: Virheiltä is most often encountered in discussions about learning from past errors or avoiding similar mistakes in the future. It highlights the idea that understanding or improvements stem from review of what went wrong. A closely related, more common everyday variant is virheistä or virheistään, which also means “from the mistakes” but with slightly different nuance or possession.

Examples: Organisaatio oppi virheiltä ja paransi prosessejaan. Tämä korostaa, että kehittymisen lähde oli virheiden seen. In more personal usage, people might say I learned from my mistakes using forms such as virheistä or virheistään, depending on emphasis and possessive context.

See also: virhe, virheiden (genitive plural), virheistä, virheistään, virheellinen. Etymology: virhe is a native Finnish word with a long-standing usage, and virheiltä is a standard inflected form used in modern Finnish.