tervitus
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Estonian
Etymology
From tervitama (“to greet”) + -us.
Pronunciation
Noun
tervitus (genitive tervituse, partitive tervitust)
Inflection
| Declension of tervitus (ÕS type 11/harjutus, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tervitus | tervitused | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | tervituse | ||
| genitive | tervituste | ||
| partitive | tervitust | tervitusi | |
| illative | tervitusse tervitusesse |
tervitustesse tervitusisse | |
| inessive | tervituses | tervitustes tervitusis | |
| elative | tervitusest | tervitustest tervitusist | |
| allative | tervitusele | tervitustele tervitusile | |
| adessive | tervitusel | tervitustel tervitusil | |
| ablative | tervituselt | tervitustelt tervitusilt | |
| translative | tervituseks | tervitusteks tervitusiks | |
| terminative | tervituseni | tervitusteni | |
| essive | tervitusena | tervitustena | |
| abessive | tervituseta | tervitusteta | |
| comitative | tervitusega | tervitustega | |
Further reading
- “tervitus”, in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- “tervitus”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “tervitus”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- tervitus in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)