Ametnikke

Ametnikke is the Estonian word ametnik in its partitive plural form, meaning “officials” or “civil servants” in a non-definite quantity context. The base noun ametnik refers to an official or government employee, and its usual nominative plural is ametnikud. Ametnikke functions as a grammatical inflection used when the object of a sentence is not definite or is expressed in a non-counted way.

In Estonian, the partitive case is employed to indicate indefinite quantity, partial objects, or ongoing actions. Ametnikke appears in contexts that involve quantifiers such as palju (many), mõned (some), või mitmeid (several). For example, the phrase medidas ametnikke conveys a non-specific, plural set of officials, though the exact sentence structure can vary with context. The use of partitive plural is a common feature in Estonian when the speaker is describing an unspecified portion of officials rather than a fixed, countable group.

Usage notes: ametnikke is a grammatical form rather than a separate lexical entry. It is most likely encountered in written or formal Estonian; in everyday speech, speakers may instead use other constructions or the nominative plural ametnikud depending on the syntactic role of the noun in the sentence.

See also: ametnik, Estonian language, Estonian grammar, partitive case.