välittömästä

Välittömästä is the elative singular form of the Finnish adjective välitön, which means immediate or direct. The word describes something that occurs without delay or mediation. In Finnish, adjectives decline like nouns, and the elative singular ending -stä/-stä yields välittömästä, used to indicate origin, source, or reference from immediacy after a preposition or in other constructions that require the elative case.

Common uses of välittömästä occur in formal or written Finnish, where one may refer to the source or cause as immediate. For example, phrases such as välittömästä vaikutuksesta (from the immediate effect) or välittömästä syystä (for an immediate reason) illustrate how the elative conveys immediacy in relation to a noun. The elative form emphasizes nearness in time or causation, rather than spatial proximity.

The base adjective is välitön, and related forms include välittömästi, the adverb meaning “immediately.” The term is closely connected to other Finnish expressions describing directness or immediacy, and it contrasts with more mediated or delayed notions.

Etymologically, välitön is built from väli (gap, interval) with a suffix that denotes negation of delay, yielding a sense of happening without a gap. While käytännön käyttö on often straightforward, choosing the elative form välittömästä depends on the syntactic requirements of the sentence and the noun it accompanies.

See also: välitön, välittömästi, välittömyys.