Töölisti

Töölisti is an Estonian-language term, a declined form of the noun tööline (worker), frequently encountered in phrases, titles and names connected with labor, trade unions and working-class politics. The root töö means "work" and the agentive suffix -line produces "tööline" (worker); the form töölisti is used in ordinary Estonian morphology to indicate a non‑nominative case in contexts such as possession, partitive objects or certain compound constructions.

As an element in names and slogans, töölisti commonly appears in historical and contemporary contexts that emphasize labor identity or class affiliation. It can be part of newspaper titles, organizational names, electoral lists or cultural works that foreground the perspective of workers. Because it is a grammatical form rather than a fixed proper noun, its precise meaning depends on surrounding words and syntactic role.

Pronunciation follows Estonian phonology, with a long vowel and the characteristic õ sound: roughly [ˈtɤːlisti], with primary stress on the first syllable. In translation and interpretation, attention to case and idiom is important: töölisti may be rendered in English as "worker's," "of the worker," or as the object form "worker" depending on context.

The term thus functions both as a grammatical form in Estonian and as a recognizable lexical element that signals links to labor, social history and political discourse.