Samasuguseid

Samasuguseid is the plural partitive form of the Estonian adjective samasugune, meaning “similar” or “of the same kind.” The base samasugune is formed from sama, meaning “same,” and sugune, meaning “kind” or “type.”

In Estonian, adjectives decline to match the noun in number and case. The form samasuguseid is used when the modified noun is plural and in the partitive case, or when the sentence requires a partitive object, such as after certain verbs or in negations. For example, “Ma nägin samasuguseid inimesi” means “I saw similar people,” and “Ma ei ostnud samasuguseid autosid” means “I did not buy similar cars.”

Samasuguseid also appears in other grammatical forms of the same adjective family, including samasugune (singular nominative), samasugused (plural nominative), and samasuguseid (plural partitive). The meaning remains essentially the same across contexts, with differences determined by the noun that follows and the syntactic role of the phrase.

The term is commonly used in descriptive, comparative, and evaluative contexts in written and spoken Estonian. It allows speakers to refer to items or persons that share key characteristics with others previously mentioned or implied, facilitating concise comparisons without repeating details.