Tunnistusele

Tunnistusele is Estonian grammar, the allative singular form of the noun tunnistus, which means certificate or identification. The allative case marks direction toward something, a recipient, or a target of an action. In practice, tunnistusele functions as the form used when a certificate or identifying document is being directed toward or addressed to someone or something.

Morphology and related forms: The base noun is tunnistus. In the singular, its cases include genitive tunnistuse, allative tunnistusele, illative tunnusse, and partitive tunnustust, among others. The allative plural form would convey the sense “to the certificates” but is not shown here. Estonian employs a system of cases to express relationships that in many other languages are shown by prepositions, and tunnistusele is one of several allative endings used with masculine and neuter nouns ending in -sus/-tus.

Usage and function: As an allative form, tunnistusele appears in contexts where something is oriented toward or directed at a certificate or credential. It may occur in formal or legal language, documentation texts, or linguistic examples illustrating case usage. It is not a standalone lexical item with a separate meaning apart from the noun tunnistus; rather, it is a grammatical form that signals a specific relational meaning.

See also: Estonian grammar, cases, and noun inflection; tunnistus (certificate/identification); allative case in Estonian.

In summary, tunnistusele is the allative singular form of tunnistus, used to indicate direction toward a certificate or credential within Estonian sentence structure.