ajakirjades

Ajakirjades is the inessive plural form of the Estonian noun ajakiri, meaning magazines. It translates as “in magazines” or “inside magazines” and is used to indicate location within periodicals rather than to name a specific magazine. The form is common in editorial, bibliographic, and journalistic contexts when describing where content appeared.

Morphology and usage notes: In Estonian, the inessive case expresses location inside something. For plural nouns the inessive ending is -des, so ajakirjades is derived from the stem ajakirj- with the plural inessive ending. The corresponding singular inessive is ajakirjas (“in a magazine”). The genitive plural is ajakirjade (“of magazines”).

Usage: Ajakirjades is used to refer to content found within magazines collectively or across multiple titles. It commonly appears with verbs of publication or appearance, such as “ilmusid” (were published) or “on avaldatud” (has been published).

Examples:

- Need artiklid ilmusid ajakirjades. (These articles were published in magazines.)

- Uurimistulemused ilmusid ajakirjades. (The research results appeared in magazines.)

- Tema koostatud esseed on avaldatud ajakirjades. (Essays he wrote have been published in magazines.)

Notes: Distinguish ajakirjades from ajakirjas (“in a magazine”) and ajakirjade ("of magazines"). Ajakirjades does not specify a single title, but indicates publication or presence within periodicals in general.