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yksityisestä

Yksityisestä is the elative singular form of the Finnish adjective yksityinen, meaning private or personal. It is used with a noun in the elative case to indicate origin, source, or relation to the private domain, as opposed to the public or state domain. For example, yksityisestä sektorista means from the private sector, yksityisestä omistuksesta from private ownership, and yksityisestä tiedosta from private information. The plural elative form is yksityisistä, as in yksityisistä yrityksistä “from private companies.”

In Finnish, adjectives ending in -inen decline like nouns, and the elative singular form typically ends with

Usage of yksityisestä tends to occur in formal or technical language, especially in discussions contrasting private

See also: yksityinen, julkinen, yksityisyys.

-isestä.
The
other
cases
have
their
own
endings
(for
example,
genitive
yksityisen,
inessive
yksityisessä).
The
form
yksityisestä
therefore
belongs
to
a
broader
pattern
of
inflection
used
for
adjectives
to
match
the
case
and
number
of
the
noun
they
modify.
versus
public
sectors,
ownership,
or
sources
of
information.
It
can
appear
in
economic,
legal,
or
policy
contexts,
where
distinctions
between
private
(yksityinen)
and
public
(julkinen)
are
relevant.
The
term
can
pair
with
a
wide
range
of
nouns,
producing
phrases
such
as
yksityisestä
sektorista,
yksityisestä
omistuksesta,
or
yksityisestä
tiedosta.