loendurit

Loendurit is an Estonian grammatical form that appears as the accusative singular of the noun loendur. The base noun loendur designates a counter, meter, or tally device—anything that counts events, units, or measurements. In everyday language, loendur can refer to mechanical counters on machines, digital counters in software, or the odometer in a vehicle. The broader concept of counting is expressed with related terms such as loendus, which refers to the act or result of counting.

The form loendurit is used when the counter is the direct object of a sentence. For example, in a sentence like Ma nägin loendurit (I saw the counter) or Kasuta loendurit (Use the counter), loendurit marks what is being acted upon. In Estonian, such inflected forms are common and depend on the syntactic role rather than changing the core meaning of loendur.

Etymology and related forms: loendur derives from the counting-related root loend-, connected to words like loendus (count, census) and loendama (to count). This family of terms covers both physical counting devices and the abstract act of counting.

In summary, loendurit is not a separate concept but the grammatical form indicating the object in sentences about counters or counting devices. See also loendur for the base noun and loendus for the act of counting.