haiglal

Haiglal is the adessive singular form of the Estonian noun haigla, which means hospital. In Estonian, nouns decline for case, and haigla takes the adessive suffix -l to yield haiglal. This form is used to express location or association with the hospital in contexts that require the adessive case, and it corresponds to the sense of “at the hospital” or “on/at the hospital” depending on the surrounding construction.

As a grammatical form, haiglal is not a separate lexical item but a case-inflected variant of haigla. It appears in sentences and phrases where the speaker needs to indicate a location or relation to the hospital without using a prepositional phrase. The exact meaning can shift with context, but the core interpretation centers on being at or in relation to the hospital.

Estonian employs a system of cases to encode spatial and other relationships, and haiglal is one among several forms derived from haigla. Understanding its use requires some familiarity with how Estonian marks location and possession through endings rather than prepositions alone. For learners, recognizing haiglal as an adessive form helps in parsing sentences that describe locations or associations involving a hospital.

See also: haigla, Estonian grammar, adessive case.