Kultuurilises

Kultuurilises is a common Estonian inflected form of the adjective kultuuriline, meaning culturally or in a cultural sense. It is used to express a relation to culture and to modify nouns in phrases that refer to culture, contexts, or manners associated with culture.

Morphology and usage: In Estonian, adjectives agree with the noun they describe and take different endings to indicate case and number. The form kultuurilises typically appears in phrases where the noun is in a specific case, often after prepositions or in fixed expressions such as kultuurilises kontekstis (in a cultural context) or kultuurilises mõttes (in cultural terms). The word signals that the statement concerns cultural aspects rather than physical attributes.

Common contexts and examples: The form is frequent in academic, media, and formal discourse. For example, Uuring keskendus kultuurilises kontekstis toimuvatele nähtustele (The study focused on phenomena occurring in a cultural context). Kultuurilises mõttes on see teos oluline (In cultural terms, this work is important). Kultuurilises ruumis võib näha erinevaid traditsioone (In a cultural space one can see diverse traditions).

Relation to related terms: Kultuurilises is part of a broader set of Estonian adjective forms that express relation or belonging to a concept, in this case culture. It is distinct from the base form kultuuriline, which can function as a descriptive adjective on its own, while kultuurilises is its inflected form suitable for specific syntactic contexts.

See also: Estonian grammar, adjectives in Estonian, kultuuriline.