äänistä

Äänistä is the elative plural form of the Finnish noun ääni, meaning sound or voice. It translates roughly to “from the sounds” or “of the sounds” and is used when referring to the source or content of multiple sounds. In Finnish grammar, the elative plural is formed by adding -istä to the plural stem; for ääni, the nominative plural is äänet, and the elative plural is äänistä. This form is distinct from other cases such as the singular elative ääni:stä (from the sound) and the genitive plural äänien (of the sounds).

Usage and sense

äänistä is commonly used in contexts involving acoustics, linguistics, musicology, and everyday description of soundscapes. It can indicate origin (from the sounds of something), content (the characteristics found in the sounds), or a basis for analysis (deriving conclusions from the sounds). For example, in a study analyzing a recording, one might say that äänistä voidaan päätellä kappaleen tempo tai instrumentaatio, meaning that aspects of the tempo or instrumentation can be inferred from the sounds.

Morphology and related forms

Besides äänistä, related forms include ääni (singular nominative), äänen (genitive singular), äänet (nominative plural), and äänien (genitive plural). The elative plural -istä is a standard suffix pattern for plural nouns in Finnish, used to express origin or source from multiple items.

See also

Finnish grammar, elative case, plural formation, ääni (sound).