metsas

Metsas is the inessive form of the Estonian noun mets, meaning forest. In Estonian grammar, the inessive case marks location, roughly translating to “in the forest” in English. Metsas is used when indicating that someone or something is located inside a forest.

In everyday Estonian, metsas appears in sentences such as Ta on metsas (He is in the forest) or Me kõndisime metsas (We walked in the forest). The form is one of several inflected variants of mets, which can change to express different cases and roles in a sentence.

Linguistic notes: Metsas is a grammatical form rather than a standalone noun. It should be written in lowercase unless it appears at the beginning of a sentence. In normal prose, speakers rely on context and word order to convey the relationship between the location and other elements of the sentence.

Outside of Estonian, the string metsas may be encountered in texts as a loanword, a proper name, or an acronym in fictional or branded contexts, but it does not carry an established meaning in English beyond its grammatical use in Estonian.