kultuurilistes

Kultuurilistes is an Estonian adjectival form derived from kultuuriline meaning "cultural." It functions as the inessive plural form of that adjective and is used to describe nouns in the plural in a sense that something occurs or exists in cultural contexts or domains. In practice, kultuurilistes often appears in academic writing, reports and analyses that address phenomena within culture, the arts, heritage, media and related fields.

Grammatically, kultuurilistes is part of a broader set of inflected forms of kultuuriline. The nominative plural is kultuurilised, the genitive plural is kultuuriliste, and the inessive plural is kultuurilistes. This last form is used when the described noun phrase is in the location or context sense expressed by the inessive case, such as "kultuurilistes kontekstides" (in cultural contexts) or "kultuurilistes uurimisvaldkondades" (in cultural research fields).

Usage and nuance: kultuurilistes signals that the statement pertains specifically to cultural contexts rather than in a more general sense. It is most common in scholarly discourse and can be paired with a range of nouns that denote fields, practices or phenomena tied to culture. It is not a separate concept but a grammatical construction that helps delimit subject matter to cultural settings.

See also: Estonian grammar, inessive case, adjectives, linguistic style in academic Estonian.