kliinikutes

Kliinikutes is an Estonian noun form that means in clinics or within clinics. It is the inessive plural form of the noun kliinik, which translates to clinic. The word is used to describe location inside more than one clinic.

In practice, kliinikutes appears in medical and statistical contexts to specify where events occur or data are gathered. It conveys a sense of being located inside multiple clinics, as opposed to a single clinic or other locations. The form is common in research reports, health statistics, and clinical descriptions.

Examples of its use include sentences like: andmed koguti kliinikutes, meaning data were collected in clinics; või uuring viidi kliinikutes, meaning the study was conducted within clinics. Because it marks location, kliinikutes typically accompanies verbs that describe actions occurring inside clinics, such as tegutsema, koguma, või töötama.

Kliinikutes has close relatives that help distinguish meaning, such as kliinikute (genitive plural) indicating possession related to multiple clinics, and kliinikud (nominative plural) referring to several clinics as subjects. The form kliinikutes should be used when the intended sense is locative within multiple clinics.

See also: kliinik, kliinikud, kliinikute.