Struktuurilistele

Struktuurilistele is an Estonian grammatical form used to express the allative case for a plural group described by the adjective struktuuriline. In practical terms it indicates a recipient or destination of an action, such as “to the structuralists” or “for the structuralists.” The form is a specific inflection that appears when the noun phrase is plural and the action is directed toward that group.

Morphology and formation: Estonian adjectives decline for number and case to agree with the nouns they modify. The allative plural form struktuurilistele is created by taking the genitive plural stem struktuuriliste and adding the allative ending -le, yielding struktuurilistele. Thus, struktuuriliste is the genitive plural form of the adjective, and struktuurilistele is its allative plural. This pattern mirrors how other adjective phrases behave in Estonian, where the same stem can appear in nominative plural (struktuurilised), genitive plural (struktuuriliste), and allative plural (struktuurilistele) depending on syntactic function.

Usage: The form occurs in sentences where a plural group described by the adjective is a recipient or beneficiary of an action. It is common in academic or formal discourse when referring to groups such as researchers, scholars, or other collectives identified by an attribute. For example, a sentence might convey that something is given to or intended for the structuralists, using the allative plural to mark the destination.

Notes: Struktuurilistele does not stand alone as a word with a fixed meaning; it is a case-inflected form of an adjective within a noun phrase. Its exact sense is determined by the accompanying verb and noun in the sentence.