mugavaks

Mugavaks is an inflected form of the Estonian adjective mugav. It denotes the translative case, used to express a change of state or a resulting condition, typically after verbs of becoming or making. In practice, mugavaks appears in constructions that describe something becoming comfortable or being made comfortable.

In use, mugavaks commonly follows verbs such as muutuma (to become), saama (to get), or tegema (to make). For example: See tuba muutub mugavaks, meaning “This room becomes comfortable.” Me teeme köögi mugavaks, meaning “We are making the kitchen comfortable.” The form is not used as an independent adjective; it functions as part of a predicate complement indicating a state after transformation.

Grammatically, mugavaks is the translative singular of mugav. It agrees with subjects in the sense of the resulting state; adjectives are not conjugated for person or number in this position, but the verb around it can reflect the subject and tense of the sentence.

Etymology and related forms: mugav originates from Estonian meaning comfortable or convenient. It has cognates in other Finnic languages, such as Finnish mukava, which carries a closely related meaning. The translative form mugavaks reflects standard Finnic morphology for signaling a change into a new state.

Notes: Mugavaks is a standard, neutral term in Estonian grammar and usage, primarily encountered in descriptive grammar, instructional texts, and everyday speech when describing changes to a state of comfort or convenience.