Populaarseid

Populaarseid is the partitive plural form of the Estonian adjective populaarne, meaning “popular” or “well-liked.” It is used to describe a plural noun in the partitive case. For example: populaarseid raamatuid (popular books, partitive), populaarseid laule (popular songs), populaarseid artikleid (popular articles). The nominative plural form is populaarsed, the genitive plural is populaarsete, and the partitive singular is populaarset. In practice, populaarseid appears when referring to a subset of items that are considered popular, often in media, marketing, or everyday speech. It cannot stand alone as a noun and always modifies a noun.

Typical usage examples include: Ma otsin populaarseid artikleid. (I’m looking for popular articles.) Populaarseid filme soovitati vaadata. (Popular films were recommended to watch.) The term is close in meaning to tuntud or menukas, but carries a nuance of describing items that are currently popular within a larger set, rather than simply being generally well known.

Etymology and morphology: populaarne is a loanword from the international word “popular,” adapted into Estonian with standard inflectional endings. The inflected forms shown above follow regular Estonian adjective declension patterns, making populaarseid a standard way to express “popular ones” in a partitive plural context.

In summary, populaarseid serves as a grammatical form for describing a subset of items considered popular, employed across journalism, marketing, and everyday Estonian.