õigustel

Õigustel is an Estonian inflected form of the noun õigus, which denotes a right, entitlement, or legal right. In broad terms, õigustel refers to rights in a collective or plural sense and is used in formal or legal language to discuss rights as a topic or object of reference.

Morphology and related forms: Estonian nouns change form to express case and number. For õigus, the basic plural nominative is õigused, the genitive plural is õiguste, and the partitive plural is õigusi. The form õigustel is the plural adessive, used to indicate a location or context related to rights, roughly translated as “on the rights” or “in terms of rights” in English. Other related forms include singular adessive õigusel (on the right) and the various case forms for different grammatical roles.

Usage and register: Õigustel appears primarily in formal, academic, or legal texts, such as constitutional discussion, policy analysis, or scholarly writing about civil rights and liberties. It is less common in everyday speech, where speakers more often use the straightforward plural nouns õigused (rights) or phrases that specify a particular right or set of rights.

See also: Estonian grammar, rights and law, civil liberties, constitutional law.