Nurkadel

Nurkadel is the adessive plural form of the Estonian noun nurk, meaning corner. It denotes location on or at multiple corners and is used when describing spatial arrangements involving more than one corner of a surface, space, or object. In standard Estonian, nurkadel marks a locational relationship and is commonly paired with a verb of location, such as olema or asuma, to indicate where something is located relative to several corners.

In practical use, nurkadel appears in descriptive writing, interior design descriptions, and cartographic or architectural text where the position of items at the edges or corners of a space is relevant. The form can be used literally, to describe physical placement, or metaphorically to refer to positions at extremities or margins of a larger area, such as a page, room, or scene.

Grammatically, nurkadel follows the regular Estonian adessive plural pattern and combines with nominatives and possessives to specify the referenced surface, often in constructions like [noun] on laua nurkadel (the corners of the table). It is part of a broader set of locative forms in Estonian that express place and orientation.

Example: Lilled olid laua nurkadel. This sentence illustrates the use of nurkadel to indicate that flowers were located on the corners of the table.

See also: nurk; Estonian grammar; locative cases.