sigade

Sigade is the genitive plural form of the Estonian noun siga, meaning pig. In Estonian, nouns decline for cases, and the genitive plural signals possession or a relationship between nouns. Sigade is used to indicate that something belongs to pigs or relates to pigs, and it appears in a variety of noun phrases without changing the head noun’s meaning.

The form is created by taking the base siga and adding the genitive plural ending -de. It is not a separate word with a standalone meaning; rather, it is a grammatical inflection that accompanies other nouns.

Common usages include sigade kasvatamine (the raising of pigs), sigade liha (pig meat; the meat of pigs), and sigade tervis (the health of pigs). In these phrases, sigade functions to express a genitive relationship, linking the noun for pigs to the head noun that follows.

If Sigade is encountered as a capitalized term, it would typically function as a proper noun or acronym in a specific context, rather than as the standard Estonian word for pigs. No widely recognized English-language entity corresponds to Sigade; clarification would require situational context.