värillisistä

Värillisistä is the elative plural form of the Finnish adjective värillinen, meaning "colored" or "colorful." In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the nouns they modify, so värillinen has forms such as värilliset (nominative plural), värillisten (genitive plural), värillisiä (partitive plural), and värillisistä (elative plural). The elative case expresses origin or source, roughly corresponding to "from the colored ones" or "out of the colored ones."

The form värillisistä is used when referring to a group of colored items as the source or basis of something. For example, värillisistä kankaista means "from the colorful/fabric materials" (i.e., using colored fabrics as the source). Similarly, värillisistä esineistä can mean "from the colored objects." The exact meaning depends on context, since the elative often conveys origin, material, or a topic under discussion.

Usage notes: värillisistä is a specialized grammatical form and will be found mainly in descriptive or formal language, such as discussions of materials, art, design, or linguistic analysis. It should not be confused with värillisiä (partitive plural of the same adjective), which would translate to "colorful ones" as an object in the partitive.

Etymology: värillisistä derives from värillinen, itself from väri, the Finnish word for color.

See also: Finnish grammar, elative case, adjectives in Finnish, värillinen.