tekstuaalsetes

Tekstuaalsetes is an Estonian adjectival form derived from tekstuaalne, meaning textual. It is used to describe things related to text and to modify plural nouns in contexts that refer to textual materials, text-based analysis, or other text-centered data. In academic and formal Estonian writing you may encounter phrases such as tekstuaalsetes materjalides, which translates to “in textual materials.” This usage highlights that the discussion or data concerns written sources rather than audiovisual or non-textual media.

In practice, tekstuaalne forms are part of how Estonian agreement works: adjectives agree with the noun they modify in number and case, so when the head noun is plural and in a case like inessive or a related form, the adjective takes a corresponding plural ending such as -setes. The exact form can vary with the noun and the syntactic role, but the general meaning remains “textual” or “pertaining to text.”

Origins and scope: tekstuaalne combines tekst (text) with a productive suffix that forms adjectives meaning related to a domain (in this case, text). The term is common in linguistics, literary studies, corpus linguistics, and other disciplines that analyze written material. It helps distinguish textual data from other modalities and supports precise description of sources, methods, and materials used in research.