Esimerkeistä

Esimerkeistä is the elative plural form of the Finnish noun esimerkki, meaning “from the examples” or “out of the examples.” The elative case expresses movement from inside something or a source, and in plural it is formed as esimerkeistä. The base esimerkki refers to an instance used to illustrate or support a point. In Finnish, nouns decline through cases and numbers, and esimerkeistä is the form used when the sentence refers to information or evidence derived from multiple examples.

Usage-wise, esimerkeistä is common in analytical, academic, and explanatory writing, where authors cite or summarize observations drawn from several cases. It often appears with verbs that indicate deduction, generalization, or interpretation, such as voidaan päätellä (can be deduced) or nähdään (is seen).

Examples:

- Esimerkeistä voidaan päätellä, että prosessi etenee kohti loppua. (From the examples one can deduce that the process is moving toward completion.)

- Tutkimuksessa esimerkeistä näkyy samanlaisuus eri ilmiöissä. (In the study, the examples show a similarity across phenomena.)

The form may combine with possessive suffixes, yielding forms like esimerkeistään (“from their/the examples’”). While esimerkeistä denotes sources among examples, other plural cases (such as esimerkkien in genitive plural) express different relationships to the noun. Overall, esimerkeistä is a key tool for indicating evidence or basis drawn from multiple illustrations in Finnish prose.