kriisidest

Kriisidest is an Estonian word form, the plural elative case of kriis, meaning "from crises" or "about crises" depending on context. The base noun kriis corresponds to the English crisis; kriisidest combines the plural stem kriisid with the elative ending -est/-dest used to indicate origin, separation or the topic when speaking about something.

Linguistically, the element kriis is a borrowing common across many European languages, ultimately derived from Greek krisis via Latin and later transmission through other languages into Estonian. The elative case in Estonian marks movement out of something ("out of the crises") and is also used with verbs of speech or thought to express subject matter ("to speak about crises"). An example sentence in Estonian would be "Ta rääkis kriisidest," which can be translated as "He/she talked about crises."

Beyond its grammatical role, kriisidest appears in journalistic and academic discussion to frame analyses of political, economic, social or personal crises. It functions as a compact marker situating discourse in relation to multiple crisis events or conditions. Related forms include kriis (nominative), kriisid (nominative plural), kriiside (genitive plural) and kriise (partitive plural).