Effektide

Effektide is the genitive plural form of the Estonian noun efekt, meaning effect or impact. The base word efekt is a loanword in Estonian, with cognates in German (Effekt), English (effect), and French (effet); its ultimate origin is Latin (effectus). The genitive plural suffix -ide is used for certain stems to indicate possession or association with multiple items, so efekt becomes efektide in this plural form.

In usage, effektide is employed to describe attributes or relationships belonging to or arising from multiple effects. It appears in scientific, technical, and media texts to talk about various effects collectively, or to attribute qualities to a group of effects. For example, phrases such as efekti tugevus or erinevate efektide mõju are constructed with efektide to connect the noun to adjectives or other nouns in genitive form. Note that effektide is a grammatical inflection rather than a separate lexical item.

See also: efekt (singular, the base noun), tagajärjed (consequences), mõju (influence, impact). The case system in Estonian means that efetkt’s genitive plural form is used in a wide range of expressions to denote relationship, possession, or characterization of multiple effects.