Narratiivides

Narratiivides is Estonian for “in narratives” and functions as the inessive plural form of narratiiv, meaning narratives or stories. The term is used to refer to elements, perspectives, or frameworks that appear within multiple narratives or across a corpus of stories, films, or other discourses.

Etymology and form: Narratiiv is a loanword in Estonian, deriving from a Latin- or French-based root for narrative. The form narratiivides is created by adding the plural inessive suffix -des to the noun narratiiv, producing a grammatical construction that means “in the narratives” or “within the narratives.”

Usage: The phrase is common in literary studies, media analysis, and social sciences when discussing how events, identities, morals, or frames are presented across several narratives. It is often used to compare how different stories handle similar themes, or to examine how discourse varies between narratives within a corpus. For example, a study might analyze how gender roles are constructed narratiivides to reveal patterns across authors or media outlets.

See also: narratiiv, narratiivsus, narratiivide analüüs. While narratiivides points to location within multiple narratives, related terms address the broader concept of narrative structure, storytelling, and the study of how stories are told.