puhastuses

Puhastuses is an Estonian noun form derived from puhastus, meaning purification or cleansing. It expresses a state or ongoing process of purification and is used to indicate that something is currently undergoing cleansing. The form is commonly understood as an inessive or locative sense, effectively meaning “in purification” or “in the process of purification.” It appears in technical, scientific, religious, and everyday contexts to describe stages of cleansing or sanitization.

In practice, puhastuses can refer to physical cleaning processes as well as metaphorical or procedural cleansing. For example, in environmental engineering or water treatment, a system may be described as being in puhastuses during certain treatment steps. In healthcare, data processing, or quality control, it can denote ongoing purification or sanitization phases. In religious or moral discourse, it may describe a state of purification of the self or of a ritual object.

Examples (Estonian with rough translations):

- Vesi on puhastuses. (The water is in purification.)

- Protsess on puhastuses. (The process is in purification.)

Related terms include puhastus (purification, cleansing) and puhastusprotsess (the purification process), as well as more specific forms like puhastamine (to purify/cleanse). Puhastuses as a form is primarily a grammatical variant used to convey ongoing cleansing rather than a separate lexical entry with a distinct thematic domain.