tõlgetes

Tõlgetes is the inessive plural form of the Estonian noun tõlge, meaning "translation." In linguistic and grammatical contexts, tõlgetes is used to refer to things that occur "in translations" rather than in the original text. The form is commonly encountered in discussions of translation quality, fidelity, and terminology transfer.

Morphology: The stem tõlge takes the inessive plural suffix -tes to form tõlgetes, indicating location within multiple translations. It is distinct from related cases such as genitive plural tõlgete ("of translations") and other plural forms.

Usage examples: In academic writing one might say "Tõlgetes võib tähendus varieeruda" or in English "In translations, meaning may vary." The phrase is not a unit of meaning itself but a grammatical marker used to point to content within translated texts.

Relation to translation studies: The term is relevant to corpus linguistics, cross-cultural studies, and translation theory discussions on equivalence, adaptation, and domestication. While not a concept with independent semantic content, it serves as a precise locational marker within analyses of translated material.

See also: tõlge, tõlkimine, Estonian grammar, translation studies.