Sobilikud

Sobilikud is an Estonian term used to express the idea of suitability, eligibility, or qualification for a particular purpose. In both everyday language and official contexts, it refers to the set of criteria, credentials, or conditions that make a person or thing eligible to participate in a program, to receive a license, or to meet a requirement. As an adjective, something described as sobilik or sobivad is considered suitable for its intended use; as a plural noun form, sobilikud or sobilikud can denote the group of qualifications or credentials deemed appropriate under a given rule.

Linguistic notes: the word stems from the Estonian verb sobima, meaning to fit or suit. In administrative prose it frequently appears in phrases that identify what is required to be considered eligible, qualified, or compliant. The exact syntactic form may vary with grammatical role and sentence construction, but the underlying idea remains constant: meeting established criteria.

Applications: in education, admissions processes may specify who is sobilikud for a program; in employment, employers refer to candidates who meet the required criteria as sobilikud for the role; in licensing or procurement, bidders and applicants are described as sobilikud when they satisfy the stipulated conditions. The concept is closely related to terms such as sobivus, qualifications, eligibility, and credentials, which cover related notions of suitability and compliance.

See also: sobivus, qualifications, eligibility, credentials.