Konkreettisille

Konkreettisille is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective konkreettinen, meaning concrete. It is the plural allative form, used to indicate the recipient or target of an action when referring to multiple concrete things or people described by the adjective. In practice, konkreettisille translates roughly as “to the concrete ones” or “for the concrete ones.”

In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case. The allative case marks direction toward or for someone or something. The plural allative suffix is -ille, so konkreettisille marks “to the concrete ones” when the head noun is plural and in the allative. For example, the sentence Esitys oli suunnattu konkreettisille substantiiveille means “The presentation was directed at the concrete nouns.”

Konkreettisille appears most often in linguistic, educational, or theoretical texts that discuss the distinction between concrete and abstract nouns, or when describing targeted audiences in a generalized sense. It is less common in everyday speech, where speakers typically use alternative constructions.

See also: Finnish grammar, adjectives, allative case, concrete vs. abstract nouns, Finnish language.