diktionaarimuoto
Diktionaarimuoto, or dictionary form, is the canonical form of a word that dictionaries treat as the headword or lemma. It is the form under which the word is listed, alphabetized, and indexed in lexicographic resources, and it serves as the base reference for morphological analysis, language learning, and search tasks.
In Estonian linguistics, the diktionaarimuoto depends on the part of speech. For nouns, it is usually the
The concept is central to lemmatization and natural language processing: inflected variants are reduced to their