näited

Näited is the Estonian word meaning "examples" and is the plural form of näide, meaning "an instance or example." The term is widely used in Estonian-language texts to present illustrative items, explanations, or demonstrations. It appears in educational materials, dictionaries, and academic writing as a way to show how a rule, concept, or procedure works in concrete terms.

In practice, näited are typically presented to accompany explanations, often following a general statement or rule. They may appear as a heading or as a short list of concrete instances. In Estonian, nouns are inflected for number and case; the nominative plural of näide is näited.

Here are a couple of simple examples:

- Siin on mõned näited.

- Need näited illustreerivad reegli tähendust.

Beyond education, näited can be used in language-learning contexts to illustrate usage, as well as in reference works to provide representative data or sample sentences. The word is also encountered in collections or datasets where researchers label items as näited to distinguish illustrative material from raw data.