kohtulikust

Kohtulikust is an Estonian inflected form of the adjective kohtulik, meaning judicial or relating to the court. In standard Estonian, adjectives decline to agree with the nouns they modify, and kohtulikust appears in non-nominative, oblique contexts where a noun is in a different case or a prepositional phrase is used. It is not a separate lexical entry with a distinct meaning, but a grammatical variant used to express a relationship to the judiciary within legal or official language.

In practice, kohtulikust occurs in legal and administrative texts to describe aspects connected to the court or the judiciary. It helps situate statements, analyses, or references within a judicial frame of reference. The exact case and function of kohtulikust are determined by the surrounding syntactic structure, following Estonian inflection rules for adjectives.

The root word kohtulik itself derives from kohtu, the Estonian word for court, and has long been part of legal vocabulary. The ability of adjectives to take oblique forms like kohtulikust reflects the broader system of Estonian case marking, which allows descriptors to align with nouns across different grammatical contexts.

Because it is a routine inflected form rather than a standalone concept, kohtulikust is primarily of interest in studies of Estonian grammar and legal language. It exemplifies how legal terminology integrates with general adjective inflection to convey precise relations to the judicial sphere.