fraasiga

Fraasiga is an Estonian grammatical form, specifically the comitative or instrumental case of the noun fraas, which means phrase. It literally translates to “with a phrase.” The form is created by attaching the suffix -iga to the stem fraas, following the general pattern of Estonian comitative constructions that express accompaniment or instrumentality.

In standard Estonian, the comitative suffix -iga is used to indicate that something is done with or using something else. When applied to fraas, fraasiga can be described in linguistic terms as indicating that a phrase or fixed expression functions as an accompanying unit in discourse or in the construction being discussed. In practice, fraasiga appears mainly in language description, grammar teaching, and analyses of phraseology and rhetoric rather than in everyday spoken Estonian.

Fraasiga is closely related to the broader concepts of phraseology and collocations, which study fixed expressions as meaningful units. It also intersects with discussions of case endings in Estonian, illustrating how the language marks tools, means, or accompaniment. Since fraasiga is primarily a grammatical or linguistic reference rather than a frequently used everyday form, it is most commonly encountered in descriptive accounts of Estonian grammar or in educational materials about how phrases behave in sentence structures.

See also: Estonian grammar, comitative case, phraseology, fraas (phrase).