Nomineeritakse

Nomineeritakse is a rare linguistic phenomenon in Estonian, referring to the tendency of certain nouns and other parts of speech to form a distinct grammatical category. It is characterized by the absence of a nominative case form, with the result that the word exhibits only two or three grammatical cases. This category is relevant in the formation of singular and plural forms, and its occurrence affects the overall inflectional patterns of a given partitive or genitive word.

When a noun does not exhibit the nominative case, it is said to have been set in the "nomineeritakse" category, which is not to be confused with formal declension categories in other languages. It is generally believed that this distinctive category is an inherent consequence of the grammatical complexity of certain inflected forms in some parts of speech, where certain regularly occurring morphological patterns and regularities are stumbled.

The implications of the nomineeritakse category for language learners and linguists can be profound as it sets limitations for formalising one's knowledge about how, for instance, the different voice features can be explained, using the applied categories of grammar and in the formulations of algebraic operations.