Ehituste

Ehituste is the genitive plural form of the Estonian noun ehitus, which means construction or building. In Estonian grammar, ehituste denotes “of constructions” or constructions in a possessive or descriptive sense, and it is used to connect nouns in a possessive relationship or to indicate quantity within a noun phrase. As a plural genitive, ehituste is typically found in phrases that refer to multiple projects or the concept of construction in general.

Common contexts for ehituste include economic, administrative, and planning discourse about several construction projects. Examples of its use include ehituste maksumus, meaning the cost of constructions, and ehituste koguarv, meaning the total number of constructions. It can also appear in combinations with other nouns to specify characteristics, such as ehitustegevuse hindamine (the assessment of construction activity) or other compound phrases describing aspects of construction.

Etymology and related forms: ehitus is the base noun meaning construction or building, with ehituse as its genitive singular and ehituste as the genitive plural. The word forms are part of standard Estonian noun declension, and ehituste frequently appears in technical, architectural, and governmental texts. Related terms include ehitustegevus (construction activity) and ehitustöö (construction work), which provide common semantic extensions within the same linguistic domain.