English-Finnish translations for narrative

• kertomus
  Mutta Euroopalle "rauhan voittaminen" oli edellisen vuosisadan kertomus. But for Europe, 'winning the peace' was the narrative of the last century.
• kertova
  Se on historiallinen, se on kertova, siinä omistetaan ainoastaan puolitoista sivua tulevaisuudelle ja tuolloinkin vain hyvin epämääräisesti. It is historical, it is narrative, it devotes only a page and a half to the future and then in the vaguest of terms.
• narratiivi
  Venäjän narratiivi Ukrainan konfliktista
• selostus
• tarina
• vuolassanainen

Definition of narrative

• Telling a story
• Of or relating to narration
• The systematic recitation of an event or series of events
• A representation of an event or story
• A manner of conveying a story, fictional or otherwise, in a body of work

Examples

• the narrative thrust of a film
• The plot is full of holes, but the narrative is extremely compelling

Related words

• renarrative
• metanarrative
• antinarrative
• narrative) hook
• narrative literature
• creation narrative
• grand narratives