Konkreettisina

Konkreettisina is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective konkreettinen, meaning concrete or tangible. It is used in predicative or descriptive phrases to express that something is being treated as concrete, rather than abstract. In practice, konkreettisina appears with nouns in plural in contexts that describe examples, evidence, or cases as tangible or specific. Common collocations include konkreettisina esimerkkeinä (as concrete examples) and konkreettisina todisteina (as concrete evidence).

Usage and function

The form is most common in formal, academic, or argumentative writing, where the author wants to emphasize the concreteness of particular instances. It often appears in constructions that contrast abstract notions with concrete, observable instances. The word signals that the following material should be understood in a concrete, non-theoretical sense.

Grammar and form

Konkreettisina is the plural essive form of konkreettinen. The singular equivalents are konkreettisena (essive singular) or using the base adjective konkreettinen in other cases. Finnish also has the adverb konkreettisesti, which conveys the sense “concretely,” but konkreettisina specifically marks a plural, state-like description in predicative or descriptive phrases.

Etymology and related terms

Konkreettisina derives from konkreettinen, which traces to the word konkreetti and ultimately to Latin or Germanic roots for the concept of “concrete.” Related Finnish forms include konkreettinen (the base adjective), konkreettisuus (concreteness), and konkreettisesti (concretely).

See also

konkreettinen, konkreettisuus, konkreettisesti, konkreettisena, konkreettisina todisteina.