Karistusele

Karistusele is an Estonian grammatical form of the noun karistus, which means punishment. It represents the allative case, a directional case used to express movement toward or at the target of an action. The allative form karistusele is created from the stem karistus by adding the allative suffix -le, yielding karistusele.

In Estonian, karistus has several inflected forms for different cases and numbers. Karistusele contrasts with karistus (nominative) and karistuse (genitive), among others. The allative karistusele is not a separate lexeme but a case form that functions within sentences to indicate direction or reference toward punishment in formal or specialized contexts.

Usage and context

The allative form karistusele is most commonly encountered in formal, legal, administrative, or academic texts where the concept of punishment is the destination or focus of an action. It appears in phrases and constructions that discuss penalties, responses to offenses, or procedural steps involving punishment. In everyday Estonian, speakers typically rely on other case forms unless the allative meaning is required by the syntax of a particular expression.

Relation to related terms

The base word karistus denotes punishment in general. Its other grammatical forms include the nominative karistus and the genitive karistuse, among others. The allative karistusele shares its semantic field with these forms as part of the same word family but serves a distinct syntactic role in sentences.

See also

Estonian grammar, allative case, karistus, punishment in law, Estonian dictionaries.