Sooladega

Sooladega is an Estonian linguistic term used to indicate accompaniment by salt. It is a postpositional or comitative phrase formed from the noun sool (salt) in the genitive plural soolade and the comitative suffix -ga, yielding sooladega, meaning “with salts” or “salted.” The form appears in culinary descriptions and ingredient listings as a way to show that salt is present in or used with the item described.

Etymology and grammar: sooladega is built from sool + ade (genitive plural) + ga (comitative). In Estonian, the comitative expresses accompaniment or association, and sooladega is one of several forms used to convey “with” in phrases describing substances or ingredients.

Usage: In modern Estonian, sooladega can appear in recipes, menu texts, and food labeling to indicate salt inclusion. It is more common in descriptive or older texts; contemporary usage often favors the more concise soolaga or other shorter constructions, depending on the register and context. The phrase is generally understood by native speakers and is primarily of linguistic interest for illustrating the Estonian comitative construction.

See also: veega (with water), piimaga (with milk), sool (salt).

Notable notes: Sooladega serves as an example of how Estonian expresses accompaniment by substances and helps illustrate how the genitive plural plus comitative suffix operates in practical terms.