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Plural Formation
Plural partitive is formed from either singular genitive or singular partitive and can take the following endings some
words have two forms:
* -id: one-syllable words with long vowels aa, ee, õõ, uu, öö, ää, two-syllable words with long vowels or endings
-em, -en, -el, -er, -ar, -ur, -e, -ne, -s or singular genitive with one or three syllables, three-syllable words with
endings -ne, -s,
* -sid: one-syllable words with long vowels ii, üü or a diphthong, two-syllable words with short vowels, three-
syllable words with endings -um, -on, -er, -ar, -är, -ov, -nna,
* -e: words with singular partitive endings -i, -u, -j, or singular partitive ending -a with the preceding syllable
containing u,
* -i: words with singular partitive ending -e, or singular partitive ending on consonant with singular genitive
ending -e, or singular partitive ending -a with the preceding syllable containing vowels e, o, ä, ö, ü or a diphthong
with one of these vowels as the first sound with the exception of ei, äi,
* -u: words with singular partitive ending -a with the preceding syllable containing vowels a, i, õ or diphthongs
ei, äi.
Plural illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, translative have a short form in some words. If the
plural partitive ends with -id, then the short plural stem is this form without -d instead of plural genitive with -de-; if
it ends with a vowel, then the short plural stem is this form; if it ends with -sid, then the short plural cannot be
formed.
Please see "Eesti keele käsiraamat" for detailed information.
Prepositions
Pay attention to the correct use of the preposition in translations. Influenced by the English language, many
translators omit them or change the word order.
There are not many prepositions in Estonian (enne (õhtut), keset (teed), piki (randa) etc.). Prepositions are
usually with noun in genitive case, but few prepositions require other cases (tänu sõbrale, ilma pikema jututa etc.).
Please see "Eesti keele käsiraamat" for detailed information.
US Expression
Estonian Expression
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+ Enne allalaadimist vaadake
nõudeid ja tingimusi.
Here the noun with preposition is in
partitive.
Pronouns
Pronouns are typically independent synsemantic words that change in case and number and behave as nouns,
adjectives or numerals in sentences, but they have more abstract content (mina, tema, see, niisugune, iga, mitu).
Always use the 2nd person plural (teie) to address the user. Normally, the pronoun „teie‖ itself will not be needed,