osalejate

Osalejate is the genitive plural form of the Estonian noun osaleja, meaning participant or attendee. The form is used to denote “of the participants” or to describe attributes related to a group of people, and it appears in contexts involving events, studies, competitions, and other activities that include participants.

Morphology and usage: Osalejate is a genitive plural. It is used attributively to modify a following noun, as in konverentsi osalejate nimekiri (the list of conference participants), osalejate arv (the number of participants), and osalejate tagasiside (the participants’ feedback). In each case, the word remains in the genitive plural to indicate possession, association, or composition with the head noun.

Language notes: In standard Estonian, the genitive plural of osaleja is osalejate, formed from the nominative osaleja by replacing the final -ja with -jate. The form is common in formal and semi-formal writing, including event documentation, surveys, and academic texts, and is part of regular noun declension in Estonian.

See also: Estonian language; Genitive case; Noun declension.