Tegusõnale

Tegusõnale is the allative singular form of tegusõna, the Estonian word for "verb." It is created by adding the allative suffix -le to the noun tegusõna, producing tegusõnale. The literal meaning of this form is “to a verb” or “for a verb,” depending on the context.

In standard usage, tegusõnale is not common in everyday speech. It appears primarily in linguistic descriptions, grammars, and dictionaries as an example of allative morphology and as a meta-language reference when discussing how Estonian nouns can take case endings. The form is mainly encountered in analyses of noun inflection and in discussions about how the allative case operates in Estonian grammar.

Relation to other terms: tegusõna refers to the verb itself, while tegusõnale is the allative form of that noun. The concept is part of the broader category of Estonian noun morphology and is related to the allative case, allatiiv, which marks direction toward a referent in grammatical constructions.

See also: Tegusõna, Allatiiv (allative case), Estonian grammar, Morphology.