juhtumiks
Juhtumiks is the translative form of the Estonian noun juhtum and appears in grammars to indicate a change of state, function, or role, roughly equivalent to “as a case” or “into a case.” In linguistic descriptions, the translative case marks the transition into a new state or identity and is treated as one of the grammatical cases described in scholarly texts.
The form juhtumiks is formed by attaching the translative suffix -iks to the stem juhtum, yielding juhtumiks.
Juhtumiks is most often encountered in academic, linguistic, or theoretical discussions of Estonian morphology and semantics.
In everyday Estonian, the translative case—both in general and the juhtumiks form—tends to be relatively rare