Keerukamatest

Keerukamatest is the elative plural form of the Estonian adjective keerukam, meaning more complex. It is used to refer to a subset of items that are of higher complexity, and it appears with nouns in the elative case in plural. In Estonian grammar, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case, so keerukam changes form when used with plural nouns in the elative, yielding keerukamatest.

Formation and usage

The form combines the comparative degree stem with the elative plural suffix. It typically accompanies nouns in the elative plural to indicate origin or source from a group characterized by greater complexity. Keerukamatest is thus not a separate lexical entry but a grammatical inflection used in descriptive and analytical writing to distinguish more complex items from simpler ones.

Examples

- keerukamatest küsimustest — from the more complex questions

- keerukamatest lahendustest — from the more complex solutions

- keerukamatest andmetest — from the more complex data

Context and relevance

Keerukamatest is most commonly found in formal or academic Estonian, where writers compare different sets of items by their level of complexity. It illustrates how Estonian adjectives inflect for case and number, showing the language’s structure for expressing relationships like source, origin, or subset within a described group.

See also

Estonian grammar, elative case, comparative degree, adjective inflection.