Kliendi

Kliendi is the genitive singular form of the Estonian noun klient, which means client or customer. In Estonian grammar, kliendi is used to indicate possession, relationship, or association with a client, and it appears frequently in official language and business terminology.

Common usage includes kliendiandmed (client data), kliendiõigused (the client’s rights), and klienditeenindus (customer service). These compounds illustrate how kliendi serves as a dependent form that creates adjectival or relational terms related to the client.

Morphology and forms: kliendi is the genitive singular of klient. In the plural, the nominative is kliendid and the genitive plural is kliendide. The partitive singular is klienti, while other cases vary according to standard Estonian noun inflection patterns.

Origin and context: klient and its inflected forms are loanwords adopted into Estonian from other European languages, commonly cited as coming from German Klient or related sources. Since their introduction, they have become standard in legal, administrative, and commercial discourse, where relational phrases involving the client are frequent.

See also: klient. In usage, kliendi appears as part of many common compound terms that describe data, rights, services, and relations pertaining to a client. The form is a routine element of Estonian business and legal vocabulary.