reisijaid

Reisijaid is Estonian for “passengers” or “travelers” in the partitive plural form. The base noun reisija means a person who travels or uses a trip, typically a passenger on transportation such as a bus, train, or airplane. In Estonian grammar, reisijaid is the partitive plural form, used when referring to an indefinite amount of passengers or when the object of a sentence is a portion of passengers (e.g., after words like palju or vähe).

Usage and context

Reisijaid is common in transport and travel contexts, including aviation, rail, bus networks, and tourism. It appears in statements about the number of people traveling, capacity planning, or passenger services. The word contrasts with reisijad (nominative plural) and reisija (singular). For example, a sentence like “Lennujaamas oli palju reisijaid” uses reisijaid in the partitive form after the quantifier palju, while “Reisija vastuvõtt oli korralik” would use reisija as the subject in singular or reisijad for plural nominative.

Etymology and related forms

The term is built from reisija (passenger/traveler) with the agentive suffix -ja and the partitive plural ending -id. Related forms include reisijad (nominative plural) and reisijaid (partitive plural). The word is primarily used in Estonian rather than borrowed terms, and it appears in official transport documentation, statistical reports, and everyday travel discourse.

In summary, reisijaid denotes an indefinite quantity of passengers or travelers in Estonian, most often encountered in transportation and travel-related language.