vuodesta

Vuodesta is a grammatical form in Finnish. It is the elative case of the noun vuosi, meaning year. The form is used to indicate origin or starting point in time, typically after a year or numeral, to express “from the year” or “since the year.” In practice, you will often see phrases like vuodesta 1999 lähtien, meaning “from the year 1999 onward” or “since 1999.” The elative singular is vuodesta, while the elative plural is vuosista.

Vuodesta is most common in formal writing, historical summaries, statistics, journalism, and legal or governmental texts where precise dating is important. It can appear in dating expressions that emphasize the starting point of a period, event, or trend. Another related form is the idiomatic expression vuodesta toiseen, which means year after year and is used to describe repeated occurrences over many years.

Morphologically, vuodesta is formed from vuosi plus the elative suffix -sta. Its use is primarily tied to temporal reference rather than as a standalone lexical item. In everyday speech, other constructions such as vuonna 1999 (in the year 1999) or alkaen vuodesta 1999 (starting from the year 1999) are common alternatives, depending on the desired nuance.

See also: Finnish grammar, elative case, vuosi.