Kursuseid

Kursuseid is the Estonian partitive plural form of the noun kursus, meaning courses or classes in the sense of units of instruction. The base noun kursus denotes a single course of study or training, such as a course offered by a university, a language school, or an online platform.

Kursuseid is used when referring to an indefinite or partial quantity of courses, or when the context calls for the partitive case. It commonly appears with numerals, quantifiers, or expressions that require the partitive, for example in phrases meaning several or many courses. In everyday language you may also encounter related constructions that convey “some courses” or “a number of courses,” always aligned with the partitive usage of kursus.

In practice, kursuseid appears in educational and training contexts, including course catalogs, program descriptions, and discussions of continuing education. It helps distinguish talking about courses as a category or portion of offerings rather than specifying a definite count. The term is part of a larger system of Estonian noun forms that distinguish nominative, genitive, and partitive cases to indicate number and grammatical role in a sentence.

Kursuseid contrasts with kursused (nominative plural, referring to the courses themselves as the subject) and kursuste (genitive plural, indicating possession or relation, such as “the prices of courses”). The singular partitive form is kursust. The root kursus is of European origin and widely used in Estonian to describe instructional programs and structured learning experiences.