Rasvase

Rasvase is a form of the Estonian adjective rasvane, meaning fatty or greasy. It is used to describe substances with a high fat content or a fatty texture, including foods, oils, and some bodily tissues. The word rasvane itself comes from rasva, fat, and conveys the sense of being fatty or fat-containing.

In Estonian, rasvase is the genitive singular form of rasvane. It appears when the adjective modifies a noun in the genitive, for example rasvase toidu meaning “fatty food.” The adjective agrees with the noun it modifies in case and number, producing forms such as rasvane toidud in the nominative plural and rasvase toidu in the genitive.

Common usage includes describing foods rich in fat, such as rasvase toidu (fatty food), or objects with a greasy texture. It can appear in nutrition and culinary contexts as well as in everyday speech. While rasvane is the base form, rasvase functions as a grammatical form used when the noun it describes is in the genitive case.

Rasvase therefore represents a normal grammatical variant of rasvane rather than a separate lexical item. It reflects how Estonian adjectives inflect to match the case of the nouns they describe, enabling precise expressions about fat content and texture in written and spoken language.