Antakaa yksi konkreettinen esimerkki tuloksesta.

Antakaa is the 2nd person plural imperative of antaa (to give).

So it is the form used when:

• you are telling several people to do something, or
• you are addressing one person politely/formally with te.

Related forms:

• anna = give! (to one person, informal)
• antakaa = give! (to several people / formal singular)

The ending -kaa / -kää is the usual plural imperative ending.

That is very normal in Finnish commands.

In imperative sentences, Finnish often puts the verb first:

• Antakaa yksi esimerkki.
• Tulkaa tänne.
• Kertokaa lisää.

Starting with the imperative verb makes the sentence sound like a straightforward instruction or request. Other word orders are possible, but the verb-first order is the most neutral here.

Because this is an affirmative imperative sentence.

In Finnish, the object of a positive 2nd person imperative is usually in the nominative when it is a total object. Here the speaker is asking for one complete example, so the object is treated as total.

That is why you get:

• Antakaa yksi konkreettinen esimerkki.

Compare with a normal statement:

• Annatte yhden konkreettisen esimerkin.

So the difference is not about meaning, but about the grammar of the imperative.

Because yhtä konkreettista esimerkkiä is the partitive, and the partitive would not be the normal choice here.

The sentence asks for:

• one
• complete
• specific example

That makes it a total object, not a partial or indefinite one.

The partitive would be more likely in contexts such as:

• negation
• incomplete/ongoing action
• an indefinite amount

For example:

• Älkää antako yhtään esimerkkiä. = Don’t give any example.
• Antakaa esimerkkiä... can occur in special contexts, but it would not fit this sentence as well.

So yksi konkreettinen esimerkki is the expected form.

Because adjectives in Finnish usually agree with the noun they modify in case and number.

Here the noun esimerkki is in the nominative singular, so the adjective is also in the nominative singular:

• konkreettinen esimerkki

If the phrase were in another case, the adjective would change too:

• yhden konkreettisen esimerkin
• yhtä konkreettista esimerkkiä

Also, konkreettinen is a -nen adjective, and those have their own pattern:

• nominative: konkreettinen
• stem in other cases: konkreettise-
• for example: konkreettisen, konkreettista

Tuloksesta is the elative singular of tulos.

The elative ending is:

• -sta or -stä

The elative often means:

• out of
• from

After esimerkki, Finnish often uses the elative to show what the example is taken from:

• esimerkki tilanteesta
• esimerkki tutkimuksesta
• esimerkki tuloksesta

So tuloksesta here means something like from the result / of the result, depending on how naturally you would express it in English.

Because tulos does not use the nominative form tulos- as its stem in other cases. Its oblique stem is tulokse-.

So the pattern is:

• nominative: tulos
• oblique stem: tulokse-
• elative: tulokse + sta → tuloksesta

This is just part of the noun’s declension pattern. Many Finnish nouns do not simply add endings directly to the dictionary form; the stem can change first.

Other forms of tulos include:

• tuloksessa
• tulokseen
• tuloksesta

It can do both in Finnish, depending on context.

Here, yksi most naturally emphasizes one single example. So it is not just an article-like word; it really highlights the number.

Compare:

• Antakaa konkreettinen esimerkki tuloksesta. = Give a concrete example of/from the result.
• Antakaa yksi konkreettinen esimerkki tuloksesta. = Give one concrete example of/from the result.

So adding yksi makes the request more specific.

It can be either:

1. Plural you: speaking to several people
2. Polite/formal singular you: speaking respectfully to one person with te

So without context, Antakaa could mean:

• addressing a group, or
• addressing one person formally

If you were speaking to one person informally, you would normally use:

• Anna yksi konkreettinen esimerkki tuloksesta.