yleisimmistä

Yleisimmistä is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective yleisimmät, which corresponds to the concept “the most common” or “the most widespread.” It is used in contexts where the speaker refers to items that belong to the group of things judged to be the most common. In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the nouns they modify, and yleisimmät has several case-specific endings. Yleisimmistä appears in phrases where the adjective interacts with a noun in a case that marks relational meaning, such as talking about the most common items in a set.

The form is typical in both written and spoken Finnish, especially in descriptive or analytical contexts such as journalism, research summaries, and academic writing. It often appears in compound noun phrases like yleisimmistä kysymyksistä or yleisimmistä virheistä, where the meaning conveyed is “of the most common questions” or “of the most common mistakes.” The exact interpretation depends on the case and the noun it modifies, but the underlying sense remains: the items under discussion are among the most common ones.

Etymology and related forms: yleisimmät is the superlative form of yleinen (common/general), and yleisimmistä is one of its case-inflected variants. Other related forms include yleisimmät (nominative plural) and yleisimpien (genitive singular/plural variations, depending on the noun and sentence structure). Understanding yleisimmistä thus hinges on grasping Finnish adjective inflection and how case endings indicate grammatical relationships.

See also: yleinen, yleisimmät, yleisimmin.