adessiividega

Adessiividega is a grammatical construction in Estonian that expresses accompaniment with multiple referents. It combines the adessive sense of location or state with a plural comitative ending to indicate that several items or people accompany the subject. In practice, adessiividega is used when describing a situation in which more than one object or participant is involved together with the subject, roughly corresponding to “with … (plural)” in English.

The concept sits at the intersection of the adessive case, which marks location or surface-related relations, and the comitative function, which marks accompaniment. The plural suffix -idega signals that the accompanying referents are more than one. This form is typically encountered in descriptive or narrative contexts where a set of objects or participants is part of the scene or action.

Usage patterns tend to be categorical rather than rigidly fixed by word order. Adessiividega can attach to a wide range of nouns, both animate and inanimate, and is especially common in written language and more formal descriptions. It allows speakers to specify multiple accompaniment items without enumerating them separately as a sequence of independent phrases.

Compared with singular comitative forms, adessiividega conveys plurality of the accompanying referents and is an example of how Estonian markers for location and accompaniment can interact to express compound relationships. The construction illustrates the flexibility of Estonian inflection, where case and number endings combine to convey nuanced meanings about presence, proximity, and companionship.