lennukiga

Lennukiga is Estonian for “by airplane” and functions as the instrument form of the noun lennuk (airplane). It is used to indicate the means of travel, specifically air travel, in a sentence. The form answers the question how someone travels.

The word is formed by adding the suffix -ga to the genitive stem of lennuk. In practice this yields lennuki + ga, producing lennukiga. It is part of a broader system in Estonian that expresses means of transportation with dedicated forms such as autoga (by car), rongiga (by train), and laevaga (by ship).

Lennukiga is commonly used with verbs of motion or travel. For example: Ma sõidan lennukiga. (I travel by plane.) Nad jõudsid lennukiga lennujaama. (They arrived at the airport by plane.) Me reisime lennukiga Tallinna. (We are traveling to Tallinn by plane.) The construction is versatile and typically does not require additional prepositions to express the mode of transport.

Notes and context: lennukiga specifically refers to using an airplane as the means of transport. Other modes of travel use their own forms, and the choice of form can carry nuances about formality or emphasis. In many everyday contexts, the exact destination or destination case may be expressed with appropriate case endings or prepositions, but the instrument form lennukiga remains the standard way to say “by plane.”