kahjustavatele
Kahjustavatele is an Estonian-language grammatical form that appears in legal, administrative, and formal texts. It is used to indicate recipients or beneficiaries related to harm, damage, or injurious actions, and is often translated into English as “to the injured” or “to those harmed,” depending on context. The form is derived from the stem related to harm or injurious action and carries the dative/allative plural ending -atele, signaling direction toward the affected group in a clause.
In usage, kahjustavatele typically denotes persons who are the subject of aid, compensation, or protective measures.
Related terms include kahjustaja (the injurer or offender), kahjustatu (the harmed person), and kahju (harm or
Notes: Estonian relies on inflection rather than prepositions to mark case, so the form kahjustavatele signals