spordiga

Spordiga is an Estonian prepositional phrase that literally means “with sport” and is used to express association with sports, participation in sport activities, or topics related to sport. It is formed by attaching the comitative suffix -ga to a stem connected with sport, and it functions as a marker of accompaniment or relation within a noun phrase.

In practice, spordiga appears in constructions such as spordiga seotud (related to sport), spordiga tegelemine (engagement with sport), and spordiga seotud küsimused (sport-related questions). It is a common pattern in everyday language, journalism, and academic writing when a writer wants to categorize or relate something to the domain of sport.

Grammatically, spordiga behaves as a regular Estonian prepositional phrase: it can modify nouns, adjectives, or entire clauses to indicate sport as the relevant domain or context. The form is not a separate word with its own independent meaning outside these contexts; rather, it is a productive phrase used to label or qualify statements about sport.

Relation to other forms includes contrasts with forms like spordita (without sport) or other domain-specific phrases formed with the same comitative pattern. Spordiga is part of the broader system of Estonian case and compounding that allows speakers to specify the field or activity under discussion.

See also: Estonian language, comitative case, sport in Estonian discourse.