Katkemisteks

Katkemisteks is an Estonian grammatical form used to refer to interruptions in a general sense. It is the plural translative form of the noun katkemine, which means interruption or outage. The translative case expresses a transformation or entry into a state, so katkemisteks can be understood as “into interruptions” or “as interruptions.”

In linguistic usage, katkemisteks appears primarily in descriptions of grammar, discourse analysis, and corpus tagging where the focus is on how events or actions are treated as interruptions. It is not a standalone lexical item with a common everyday meaning, but rather a formal form used in descriptive or instructional contexts to illustrate the translative case in plural.

A representative example: Need sündmused võivad muutuda katkemisteks. This sentence demonstrates how the translative plural form functions with the verb muutuma (to become), indicating that certain events may become interruptions.

Related terms include katkemine (interruption, breaking) and katkestus (interruption, outage), which are more commonly used in general language. Katkemisteks is chiefly of interest to students and researchers of Estonian grammar and to writers who need to describe state changes in discourse or events within a formal linguistic framework.