Võtuks

Võtuks is a term that appears in some discussions of Estonian historical and dialectal grammar. In contemporary standard Estonian, the verb to take is võtta, and the commonly cited conditional forms in everyday use are võtaks (and related forms such as võtaksin). Võtuks is not listed as a standard modern form in mainstream dictionaries, and its exact status varies across sources.

Linguistic references sometimes treat võtuks as a historical or regional variant of the conditional mood, noting that Estonian dialects have produced a variety of inflectional patterns over time. The form is generally described as arising from older or regional inflectional morphologies that differ from the modern standard system. Due to its irregularity and limited attestation, võtuks is most often discussed in the context of scholarly descriptions of variation within Estonian rather than as an everyday verb form.

Etymology for võtuks is connected to the infinitive võtta and to general patterns of mood marking in Estonian, but the precise historical development is not uniformly documented across grammars. For most learners and speakers, võtuks remains a niche or scholarly example rather than a productive part of contemporary Estonian.

See also: Estonian language, Võtta, Conditional mood in Estonian, Finnish-Estonian historical linguistics.