Tulemusile

Tulemusile is a form of the Estonian noun tulemus, which means “result” or “outcome.” In Estonian, the word undergoes inflectional endings that indicate its grammatical role in a sentence. The ending –ile is the dative case suffix, used to express the indirect object or destination of an action. Therefore tulemusile translates literally to “to the result” or “for the result” in English.

The dative case is often employed in contexts such as “The decision was made for the result” (Kohaliku otsuse tegemine tulemusile). In everyday speech, it can also appear in expressions like “We will analyze the data for the result” (Me analüüsime andmeid tulemusile). In legal or academic writing, the form is used to specify whom or what an action concerns implicitly, linking nouns with their associated procedural or conceptual outcomes.

Because of its grammatical function, tulemusile is not an independent lexical item but a case form. It is regularly taught in Estonian language courses, especially in units covering case systems and noun declension. The form is indexed in Estonian dictionaries under the entry for tulemus, with explicit marking of the dative ending –ile. Its correct usage depends on the syntactic context, particularly whether the noun is acting as a recipient of an action or as the focus of a prepositional phrase.