kehaosade

Kehaosade is the genitive plural form of the Estonian noun kehaosa, which refers to a part of the body. The base kehaosa is a compound of keha, meaning body, and osa, meaning part. Kehaosad is the nominative plural, while kehaosade is used in genitive constructions to indicate possession or association and to connect with other nouns in phrases such as kehaosade nimekiri (a list of body parts) or kehaosade nimed (the names of body parts).

Usage and meaning: Kehaosade denotes body parts in a general sense and is most common in written or formal language, educational or medical contexts, and in phrases that describe relationships between body parts and other concepts. In everyday speech, people typically refer to specific parts directly (for example, käsi, jalg) rather than using the genitive plural form kehaosade.

Grammatical notes: Estonian marks grammatical relations primarily through cases rather than prepositions; the genitive plural suffix -de is attached to the stem kehaosa to form kehaosade. The noun kehaosa is a compound, built from keha (body) and osa (part), and follows the standard declension pattern for -a ending nouns in Estonian. The word does not encode gender, as Estonian nouns lack grammatical gender.

See also: body parts in Estonian, Estonian grammar, genitive case.