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Nouns
General considerations
Noun is one of basic part of speech of Estonian. There are hardly any sentences without nouns in Estonian.
Nouns are typically words that change in case and number, naming different objects (things, persons etc) and
they can be in a sentence as a subject and an object.
Examples:
+ Meri kohises. Tüdrukud kuulavad muusikat.
Besides typical nouns there are other nouns that have different meaning. They express action (jooksmine, jooks
— running) or property (ilu — beauty). Nouns can also fill syntactic features of other parts of speech: adverbial as
an adverb, for example Tüdrukud kuulasid laupäeval muusikat (as Tüdrukud kuulasid eile muusikat); attribute as
an adjective, for example p oisi raamat (as hea raamat); and subject predicative, for example Joosep on
üliõpilane (as Joosep on imelik).
All names are nouns.
Please see "Eesti keele käsiraamat" for detailed information.
Inflection
There are 14 cases in Estonian:
Nominative (Microsoft)
Genitive (Microsofti)
Partitive (Microsofti)
Allative (Microsoftile)
Adessive (Microsoftil)
Abaltive (Microsoftilt)
Illative (Microsofti)
Inessive (Microsoftis)
Elative (Microsoftist)
Translative (Microsoftiks)
Terminative (Microsoftini)
Essive (Microsoftina)
Abessive (Microsoftita)
Comitative (Microsoftiga)
Note: as names are nouns in Estonian, they are also declined.
Please see "Eesti keele käsiraamat" for detailed information.