Kilekottidele

Kilekottidele is the allative plural form of the Estonian compound noun kilekott, which means plastic bag. In Estonian, the allative case marks direction toward something, and the plural form indicates that the reference is to multiple bags. The form kilekottidele is formed by combining the plural element of the noun with the allative suffix, yielding a phrase that translates roughly to “to/for the plastic bags” in English.

As a grammatical inflection, kilekottidele is encountered in written and spoken Estonian whenever a speaker needs to indicate direction toward multiple plastic bags. It is a typical example used in discussions of Estonian case systems and noun-phrase morphology, and it can appear in language-learning materials, dictionaries, and corpora. The term itself is not a separate concept but a specific inflected form of a common noun used to describe everyday objects.

In broader usage, kilekottidele may be encountered in contexts related to shopping, packaging, waste management, and environmental policy discussions where language about bags and their movement or allocation is relevant. Because it is a form rather than a distinct lexical item, it helps illustrate how Estonian encodes quantity and direction within a single word ending.

See also: Estonian grammar, allative case, Estonian noun declension, compound nouns in Estonian.