sellisele

Sellisele is the allative (directional) case form of the Estonian demonstrative/adjective selline, which corresponds to English words like "such" or "this kind of." As an allative, sellisele indicates movement toward, addition to, or a target/recipient of an action, and is commonly translated as "to such" or "to such a." It appears when selline modifies a noun that is also in the allative case (for example, sellisele inimesele — "to such a person").

Morphologically, sellisele is formed by attaching the allative ending -le to the genitive stem (sellise + -le → sellisele). Estonian adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in case and number, so sellisele is used when the modified noun is singular and in the allative. The form is used across spoken and written Estonian in both literal and figurative senses.

Examples:

- Ma andsin raamatu sellisele õpilasele. (I gave the book to such a student.)

- Ära reageeri sellisele käitumisele. (Do not react to such behaviour.)

Related forms include the nominative selline, genitive sellise, and partitive sellist. Sellisele is not a separate lexical item but an inflected variant used to express directionality or the target role in a sentence.