Antropoloogilistes

Antropoloogilistes is an Estonian inflected form of the adjective antropoloogiline, which means anthropological. It is used to describe plural nouns in phrases that indicate location or context, roughly translating to "in anthropological [contexts]" or "relating to anthropology in those contexts." The form shows how adjectives agree with number and case in Estonian grammar.

In practice, antropoloogilistes commonly appears in academic writing and discourse to specify that a discussion, finding, or concept belongs to or is examined within anthropology. It often functions to delimit the scope of analysis to the field of anthropology or to indicate methodological or theoretical orientation tied to anthropological study. Examples include phrases such as antropoloogilistes uuringutes (in anthropological studies), antropoloogilistes teooriates (in anthropological theories), and antropoloogilistes valdkondades (in anthropological fields). Because Estonian adjectives inflect for case and number, the form antropoloogilistes will align with the plurality of the noun it modifies and the grammatical case required by the sentence.

Etymologically, the word is built from the root antropoloog- (from anthropology) combined with the adjectival suffix -iline and then inflected to match its syntactic role. It illustrates how Estonian expresses field-specific descriptors through inflected adjective forms rather than standalone nouns.

See also: anthropology, anthropological methods, ethnography, cultural anthropology.

Note: As a grammatical form, antropoloogilistes does not denote a separate concept on its own; its meaning derives from its use with accompanying plural nouns to indicate anthropological context.