Teostes

Teostes is a term related to the Estonian noun teos, which means a work or creation. In standard Estonian, teos is used for a single work, while teosed is the nominative plural and teoste is the genitive plural. The form teostes is not part of the common modern inflection pattern in everyday usage, and when it appears it is usually in older texts, typographical variants, or dialectal contexts.

In scholarly and bibliographic contexts, teoste or teosed are the forms typically used to refer to multiple works. Teostes may occasionally be encountered as a nonstandard or stylistic variant, for example in historical editions, catalog headers, or experimental writing, but it is not the preferred form in contemporary standard Estonian.

Usage examples in standard language would typically involve teosed or teoste, depending on the grammatical role. For instance, to discuss the collection of works by a writer one would more commonly say “teoste kogu” (the corpus of works) or similar constructions using teoste in the genitive plural. The term remains closely tied to discussions of literature, art, and other creative output, where it helps group multiple creations under a single author or theme. See also teos and teoste.