Tööstusel

Tööstusel is the adessive singular form of the Estonian noun tööstus, meaning industry. In linguistic terms it marks location or context, roughly translating to “in industry” or “in the industrial sector” when used in sentences. The form is commonly found in economic, policy, and technical writing to refer to activities, trends, or conditions within the industrial sphere.

Grammatical notes and usage: Tööstus is the base noun for “industry.” When used in the adessive case as tööstusel, it signals that the discussion concerns industry as a field or sector rather than a specific company or object. This form is frequent in formal Estonian texts, where phrases such as “Tööstusel on olnud oluline roll…” (The industrial sector has played an important role…) appear to frame analyses around industry-wide phenomena.

Context and significance: In widely used economic and policy discourse, tööstusel helps delineate the scope of analysis to the broader industrial sector rather than to services, agriculture, or other domains. It is common in reports about industrial policy, employment in manufacturing, energy, and related infrastructure, as well as in comparative studies of national economies.

Related terms: The primary related word is tööstus (industry). Adjectives such as tööstuslik (industrial) describe things pertaining to industry. Other case forms of tööstus are used to indicate different syntactic roles and relations in a sentence.

See also: Estonian economic vocabulary, industrial policy, manufacturing sector, economic terminology.