tükkide

Tükkide is the genitive plural form of the Estonian noun tükk, which means a piece, chunk or part. The form is used in contexts where tükk appears in a genitive plural position, typically to express quantity, measurement, or possession. In practice, you will encounter phrases such as tükkide arv, meaning the number of pieces, or tükkide kaupa, meaning by pieces.

In everyday language, the nominative plural tükkid is used when the pieces themselves are the topic of the sentence. For example, if you are talking about the pieces as items, you would refer to tükkid rather than tükkide. The genitive plural tükkide appears more often in phrases that describe a total or distribution of pieces, such as “the amount of pieces” or “distributed by pieces.”

Morphology and grammar: Estonian nouns decline for case, and tükkide is the standard genitive plural form. The root tükk denotes a fragment or portion, and the form tükkide is productive in a range of compound and descriptive expressions, including tükkide arv, tükkide hulk, and tükkide kaupa.

Etymology: The Estonian word tükk is of Finnic origin and has cognates across Finnic languages. The genitive plural tükkide is a regular inflection used to indicate parts of a whole in a quantified or relational sense.

See also: tükk, Estonian grammar, list of Estonian nouns.