Juhuslikke

Juhuslikke is the Estonian adjective juhuslik in its partitive plural form, used to describe an unspecified or non-specific set of items in the partitive case. It is not a proper noun or a standalone concept, but a grammatical form that appears in sentences when referring to a non-specific quantity of plural nouns.

In Estonian, adjectives decline to agree with the noun they modify. Juhuslikke serves as the partitive plural form, typically appearing before a noun in the partitive case, such as juhuslikke inimesi (random people) or juhuslikke olukordi (random situations). The base word juhuslik means random, incidental, or chance, and its inflected forms reflect standard Estonian adjective morphology.

Usage of juhuslikke is common in everyday Estonian when the speaker wants to denote non-specificity or general instances rather than definite ones. It can appear in spoken language, journalism, and literature to convey the idea of “some random …” or “random instances.”

Examples:

- Ma kohtasin juhuslikke inimesi pargis. (I met random people in the park.)

- Ta kuulas juhuslikke kommentaare. (She listened to random comments.)

- Juhuslikke olukordi võib ette tulla igaühel. (Random situations can happen to anyone.)

See also: juhuslik, juhuslikkus, Estonian grammar and inflection.

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