soorituses

Soorituses is an Estonian noun form derived from the noun sooritus, which denotes the act of performing, carrying out, or completing something. Soorituses specifically is the inessive singular form, used to indicate “in the performance” or “during the execution” of a task or event. In practice, the term functions as a locational or contextual marker within a sentence, pointing to the activity being carried out at a given time or place.

Usage and meaning

The concept of sooritus encompasses performances in arts and sports, as well as broader executions of tasks and goals. Soorituses appears in contexts where the focus is on how something is performed or how an action unfolds during a particular moment, event, or phase. Examples include descriptions of a contestant’s execution in a competition, an artist’s approach during a performance, or the manner in which a procedure is carried out in a given setting. The word thus expresses the relationship between an action and the period or context in which it occurs.

Etymology and morphology

Soorituses is formed from the root sooritus with a suffix that marks the inessive case. The base verb sooritama means “to perform,” “to execute,” or “to accomplish,” and the related noun sooritus refers to the act itself. The inessive form soorituses therefore translates roughly to “in the performance” or “in the execution.”

See also

Sooritus, which covers the general notion of performance or completion, and grammatical topics related to the inessive case in Estonian.