Turistide

Turistide is the genitive plural form of the Estonian noun turist, meaning “of tourists” or “the tourists” in attributive or possessive constructions. It is used to indicate relation to tourists, or to describe quantities or groups involving tourists. For example, using the genitive plural, one says turiste or touristide arv for “the number of tourists.” The nominative plural of the word is turistid, and the genitive singular is turisti.

Origin and usage

Turist is a loanword in Estonian from Western European languages, with cognates in several languages such as French touriste or German Tourist. The term was established in Estonian in the 19th century and is now common in travel writing, tourism statistics, and everyday speech. In modern usage, turist and its inflected forms appear in contexts such as tourism data, travel promotions, and reports on visitor flows.

Grammatical notes

Estonian nouns decline for case and number. The genitive plural suffix for many -ist nouns is -ide, producing turistide. Other related forms include turisti (genitive singular), turistid (nominative plural), and turiste (partitive plural). The word is frequently combined with numerals or adjectives in the genitive: turiste arv (the number of tourists), turiste grupp (group of tourists), and similar constructions such as among tourists (turistide hulgas).

See also

turist, tourism (turism), tourism statistics.