elatiivväärtust

Elatiivväärtust is a linguistic term used in Estonian grammar to denote the elative case value of a noun or pronoun. The elative case expresses origin, source, or movement away from something, and the elative value is a key part of Estonian noun inflection.

Morphology and usage: In standard Estonian, the singular elative often ends with -st, while the plural elative typically ends with -test for many common nouns. Some stems undergo vowel or consonant alternations, and certain words have irregular forms. The elative forms function as complements in sentences, often indicating source or starting point in combinations with verbs or prepositions.

Examples: raamatust means from the book, raamatutest means from the books. Linnast means from the city, linnatest means from the cities. These forms illustrate how the elative value marks origin or source in different numbers.

Role in grammar and data: The elatiivväärtust is one element of the Estonian locative case system, alongside illative, inessive, allative, adessive, and ablative cases. It is important for proper sentence structure, morphology, and meaning. In linguistic description and language technology, elative values are relevant for morphological analysis, parsing, and corpus annotation to capture source or origin information.

See also: Estonian language, Estonian grammar, locative cases, noun inflection.