Käändust
Käändust is a term used in Estonian grammar to refer to inflection, specifically the modification of a word's ending to indicate its grammatical function within a sentence. This process is crucial for expressing grammatical relationships such as case, number, and sometimes gender or tense. Estonian is an agglutinative language, meaning that suffixes are added to a root word to convey these grammatical meanings, and käändust encompasses the systematic application of these suffix changes.
There are numerous cases in Estonian, typically around 14, each with its own set of suffixes. These