Kantavaid

Kantavaid is an Estonian adjective form derived from the verb kanda, meaning to carry. It describes objects that are portable or capable of being carried. Grammatically, kantav is the present active participle/adjective, and kantavaid is its plural partitive form. For example, kantavaid esemeid means portable items.

In practice, kantavaid appears in noun phrases and inventories. It is used with plural nouns in contexts where the quantity is indefinite, as in portable items or in lists of required equipment. The form signals a property rather than an action and does not function as a predicate on its own.

Origin and use: The form is produced according to standard Estonian inflection rules, with kantav serving as the base and the endings that yield kantavaid in the partitive plural. It is commonly encountered in technical, logistical, or descriptive texts where portability is a characteristic of the items being discussed.

See also: Estonian grammar, participles, partitive case.