Operaatorile

Operaatorile is an Estonian inflected form of the noun operaator, meaning operator. It is the allative case form used to express movement toward or direction to a single operator, and can be translated roughly as “to the operator” in English.

The noun operaator has several senses. It can refer to a person who operates machinery (machine operator), a person who operates a system or process, a camera operator in film production, or a telecommunications service provider. In different contexts the term may denote a worker who operates equipment or a provider of telecommunication services.

In standard Estonian, operaatorile marks the recipient or target of an action when the subject is performing the action toward one operator. For plural recipients, the corresponding form is operaatoritele (to the operators). The form is part of the Estonian case system—the allative—used with verbs of giving, sending, informing, or directing something to someone.

Examples appear in service or workplace contexts where a message, instruction, or item is addressed to a specific operator. The exact meaning depends on context, such as whether the reference is to a single operator or a group of operators, and on the surrounding verbs.