Narratiividele

Narratiividele is an Estonian word form used to refer to multiple narratives in contexts that indicate direction, reference or concern — roughly equivalent to "to/for the narratives" in English. It derives from the base noun narratiiv (narrative), a borrowing from international terminology related to storytelling and discourse.

Linguistically, narratiividele is an inflected plural form that marks the target or recipient role in a clause. In Estonian grammar this function is commonly expressed with the allative or related case endings that convey movement toward, addressing, or relating to the referent. The exact ending reflects regular phonological and morphological rules of Estonian nominal declension.

In practice, narratiividele appears in literary analysis, media studies and cultural commentary where authors discuss relationships with, responses to, or adaptations of multiple narratives. For example, it can be used when describing how creators refer back to established storylines, when institutions respond to competing public narratives, or when scholars compare sets of narratives across media.

The term is also occasionally encountered in translation and multilingual discourse, where its use signals a focus on narrative structures rather than isolated events or facts. Related forms include narratiiv (singular) and narratiivid (plural nominative), as well as other case-inflected variants used to express possession, location or other grammatical relations.

As a grammatical form rather than a standalone concept, narratiividele is primarily of interest to speakers of Estonian, translators, and scholars working on narrative theory and discourse analysis.