dokumendile

Dokumendile is an Estonian grammatical form used to express direction toward a noun. It represents the allative case and is formed by adding the suffix -ile to the noun stem. In standard Estonian, the common allative singular for the noun meaning document is dokumentile, and the allative plural is dokumentidele. The form dokumendile appears in some dialectal, historical, or nonstandard texts and may reflect an alternative stem such as dokumend. The presence of this form illustrates the regularity of Estonian case endings and how loanwords or variants can influence stem shape in the allative. Functionally, dokumendile behaves like other allative forms, marking the target or recipient of movement, reference, or attention within a sentence. Awareness of this form is mainly of interest to students of Estonian morphology or dialectology. For learners who encounter it, it is useful to compare with the standard dokumentile and dokumentidele to understand stem changes and standardization in contemporary Estonian. In everyday modern Estonian, dokumendile would be considered nonstandard in most contexts, with dokumentide or dokumentidele forms preferred depending on number and case. See also Estonian language, allative case, suffix -ile.