Hoidlas

Hoidlas is an Estonian word that functions as the inessive singular form of the noun hoidla, meaning storehouse, warehouse, or place of safekeeping. The inessive case expresses location roughly equivalent to the English “in the …” and is used to indicate that something is located inside a storage facility. For example, in a sentence such as “Dokumendid on hoidlas,” the meaning is “The documents are in storage.”

As a grammatical form, hoidlas is not an independent lexical item but the result of inflecting the base noun hoidla to express location. The base word hoidla refers to a place used to keep or store items, often in contexts related to archives, warehouses, or repositories.

In usage, hoidlas appears in everyday Estonian prose when specifying where objects or materials are kept. Its interpretation is primarily literal, though it may also be employed in more formal or archival language to describe the safekeeping of documents, goods, or records. The term illustrates how Estonian uses case endings to convey precise spatial information within a sentence.