müüjatel

Müüjatel is the Estonian plural adessive form of the noun müüja, meaning seller. In Estonian grammar, the adessive case is used to indicate location or association with something, and in the plural it refers to more than one seller. Therefore müüjatel translates roughly to “at the sellers” or “with the sellers,” depending on the context.

Morphology and basic forms: The base form is müüja (seller). Its plural nominative is müüjad (sellers). The genitive plural is müüjate (of the sellers), the allative plural is müüjatele (to the sellers), and the adessive plural is müüjatel (at the sellers). These forms show how the same noun can take different endings to express different syntactic roles.

Usage: Müüjatel is used when talking about multiple sellers in relation to a location or activity. For example, in a market or fair, one might say: Laadal on müüjatel oma letid. (At the fair, the sellers have their own stalls.) Another example: Müüjatel on sageli hea pakkumine, which can convey that the sellers often have good offers. The form helps specify that the referent is a group of sellers rather than a single seller.

Related terms: The singular adessive is müüjal (at the seller), and other plural cases include müüjate (genitive plural) and müüjat (partitive plural). As a common noun form, müüjatel appears in descriptive, narrative, and informational writing to denote multiple sellers in a location or activity.

See also: müüja, müüjate, müüjatele, müüjat.