Regulatiivseteks

Regulatiivseteks is an Estonian grammatical form that functions as the translative plural of the adjective regulatiivne, meaning regulatory. It is used when describing a plural noun in a way that expresses a change of state toward something regulatory, typically in formal or specialized texts.

In practice, regulatiivseteks appears in legal, policy, and administrative language to indicate that certain items are to be treated as regulatory measures, standards, or regulations. Nouns commonly modified with this form include meetmed (measures), normid (standards), or regulatsioonid (regulations). An example context might be: Eelnõu muutub regulatiivseteks meetmeteks, meaning the bill is becoming regulatory measures.

Form and usage notes: the form results from combining the adjective regulatiivne with the translative function in Estonian grammar, used with a plural noun to denote transformation into a regulatory category. The construction is characteristic of formal discourse and may appear in legislation, government documents, and policy analyses. While the underlying concept is straightforward—describing something as becoming regulatory—the exact stylistic use of regulatiivseteks is most common in written, official registers rather than everyday speech.