Kohtlemiseni

Kohtlemiseni is an Estonian inflected form derived from the noun kohtlemine, which means treatment, handling, or mistreatment. The form is used to express a boundary or extent related to that treatment or handling. In practice, kohtlemiseni appears in formal or written language to indicate a scope—for example, up to or as far as a certain treatment applies—often with a possessive determiners to specify whose treatment is being referenced.

Because kohtlemine covers both neutral and negative senses (treatment and mistreatment), the connotation of kohtlemiseni is highly context-dependent. The exact meaning in a sentence depends on the surrounding words and the broader discourse.

Usage of kohtlemiseni is most common in formal, legal, policy, or historical texts where the scope of how something has been treated needs to be specified. It is relatively rare in casual spoken Estonian and tends to appear in carefully constructed or technical prose.

Relation to related forms: kohtlemine is the base noun; related inflected forms include kohtlemise (genitive) and kohtlemist (partitive). The specific form kohtlemiseni represents one of the postpositional or suffixal constructions used to mark extent in Estonian grammar.

See also: kohtlemine; Estonian case and postpositional suffixes; Estonian grammar.