Kohustusele

Kohustusele is the allative form of the Estonian noun kohustus, which means obligation or duty. The allative case, marked by the suffix -le, expresses direction toward or reference to an obligation and is common in formal or legal language when indicating the target of an action or the entity to which the obligation is addressed.

Grammatical details: The base noun is kohustus. Declension includes nominative kohustus, genitive kohustuse, partitive kohustust, allative kohustusele; plural allative kohustustele. The allative form is used when the action is directed at the obligation or when the obligation is the referent of the statement.

Usage: In legal, administrative, and contract texts, kohustusele appears in contexts that discuss fulfilling, meeting, or referring to obligations that are connected to a person, organization, or law. It is one piece of the broader Estonian case system, which marks relationships without relying on prepositions in many contexts.

Notes: Like other Estonian inflected forms, kohustusele reflects grammatical relations rather than fixed word order. Its precise meaning depends on the surrounding verbs and nouns, and on whether the speaker refers to a single obligation or multiple obligations (kohustusele vs. kohustustele).

See also: kohustus; Estonian grammar; allative case.