rahvusvahelist

Rahvusvahelist is an Estonian adjective form meaning international or cross-national. It is the partitive singular form of the base adjective rahvusvaheline, and it is used to express the international character of a noun in contexts such as law, politics, education, and diplomacy.

In Estonian, adjectives are declined to agree with the nouns they modify. Rahvusvahelist appears before a noun in the partitive case, for example in phrases like rahvusvahelist koostööd (international cooperation). The base form rahvusvaheline is used in the nominative singular, while other forms appear in different cases or numbers, such as rahvusvahelise (genitive/dative singular) or rahvusvahelised (nominative plural). The word commonly occurs in official, academic, and media language when referring to activities, organizations, or relations spanning national borders.

Common usages include describing international agreements, organizations, or relations, such as rahvusvaheline õiguskord (international legal order) or rahvusvahelised suhted (international relations). Because it is an inflected form, rahvusvahelist does not stand alone as a noun; it functions as an attributive modifier linked to a noun in a particular grammatical case.

Etymology traces rahvusvaheline to a compound rooted in rahvus (nation) and a forming element that conveys cross-border or inter-nation sense. The term is widely used in government, academia, journalism, and international discourse in Estonian. It is part of standard vocabulary for describing the global or cross-border scope of affairs.