Deklaseeritakse

Deklaseeritakse is the passive present tense form of the Estonian verb deklaseerida, which means to decline or inflect a word in grammar. In linguistic terminology deklaseerida refers to changing a word’s form to reflect grammatical categories such as case, number, and other features. The form deklaseeritakse is used to describe the process itself without specifying who performs the action, making it a common construction in grammar descriptions and teaching materials.

In practice, the term appears when explaining how nouns, pronouns, adjectives, or other parts of speech are inflected in Estonian. A typical usage is to state that a word deklaseeritakse according to the system of cases or according to the rules of Estonian declension. This allows discussions of morphology to focus on the patterns of inflection rather than on the agent carrying them out.

Deklaseerida as a verb is part of standard Estonian grammar vocabulary and is used across dictionaries, grammars, and language-learning resources. The concept is widely understood in the context of inflectional morphology, and the related forms (such as deklaseeritakse) appear in explanations of how words change form in different syntactic roles. The term is a loanword in Estonian linguistic usage and has cognates in other European languages that describe inflection and declension.

See also: Estonian grammar, declension, inflection, käändeõigus.