sõdade

Sõdade is the genitive plural form of the Estonian noun sõda, which means war. As a grammatical form, it is used to express a relationship to wars rather than to refer to a specific, independent concept. In Estonian, the genitive plural is typically formed by adding -de, so sõda becomes sõdade in the genitive plural.

The form is common in historical and literary contexts. It appears in phrases such as “sõdade mõju” (the impact of wars) and “sõdade ajal” (during the wars), where it signals association with wars or situates events, effects, or periods in relation to warfare. Because it is a inflected form, sõdade is not a standalone noun on its own, but part of a larger grammatical structure within a sentence.

Sõdade is not a widely recognized proper noun or place name. It is not used as a location in standard references unless encountered in a rare toponymic usage, in which case it would be capitalized like other proper nouns. In ordinary usage, it remains a morphological form of the common noun sõda and functions within clauses to convey possessive, temporal, or relational meaning tied to warfare.