Kahjudeks

Kahjudeks is an Estonian-language term that appears mainly in legal and insurance texts. It denotes purpose or allocation related to damage or harm, and is often understood as “for damages” in English. The term is formed from kahju, meaning harm or damage, with a suffix that signals purpose, yielding a sense equivalent to “for damages.”

Usage and context: In statutes, contracts, and court decisions, kahjudeks describes actions, payments, or provisions intended to address damage. It may appear in clauses specifying that a sum or resource is provided kahjudeks, or in discussions about liability and restitution. The expression helps link financial or remedial measures to the harm they are meant to counteract.

Etymology and related terms: The root kahju means harm or damage, and the word is connected to concepts of compensation and restitution. The form kahjudeks is relatively specialized and most common in Estonian-language sources dealing with liability and insurance.

Limitations: The term is largely regional and specialized to Estonian-language contexts. In broader European or English-language sources, translations rely on general phrases such as “for damages” depending on the sentence structure. As a result, direct one-to-one equivalents may vary by legal system and usage.

See also: kahju, hüvitus, compensation.