Tegusõnalisele

Tegusõnalisele is an Estonian grammatical form: it is the allative singular inflection of the adjective tegusõnaline, which means “verbal” or “relating to verbs.” The base adjective tegusõnaline is formed from tegusõna (verb) with the suffix -line, yielding a word that denotes something pertaining to verbs.

As an adjective, tegusõnaline declines like other adjectives in Estonian and takes the allative ending -le when it modifies a noun in the allative case. Therefore tegusõnalisele is used in phrases where the modified noun is in the allative, for example in sentences such as tegusõnalisele õpikule, meaning “to the verbal textbook.” In this construction, both the adjective and the noun reflect the same case ending.

The term is mainly encountered in linguistic or grammatical discussion about Estonian inflection and adjective agreement, illustrating how adjectives attach case markings to agree with their nouns. It does not introduce a separate lexical meaning beyond “verbal-related” but serves as a specific inflected form of the word tegusõnaline.

Related concepts include tegusõna (the word for “verb”), tegusõnaline (the base adjective meaning “verbal”), and the Estonian case system (including the allative) that governs how adjectives and nouns pair in phrases. In practice, tegusõnalisele appears in formal or technical text when a verbal-related modifier is positioned in an allative construction.