tavapäraseid

Tavapäraseid is an Estonian adjective form derived from tavapärane, meaning ordinary, typical, or customary. Tavapärane describes nouns and agrees with them in number and case. The form tavapäraseid is the partitive plural form used before plural nouns in the partitive case, for example tavapäraseid inimesi (ordinary people) or tavapäraseid olukordi (typical situations).

Etymology and morphology: tavapärane is built from tava (custom, habit) plus the suffix -pärane, which marks the sense of “having the nature of.” In Estonian, adjectives decline to match the noun’s number and case, so tavapärane changes to forms such as tavapärase, tavapärast, tavapäraseid, depending on grammatical role. The specific form tavapäraseid signals a plural noun in the partitive case.

Usage: The word is common in descriptive writing and everyday language to refer to things that are ordinary or expected. It can describe people, events, or phenomena when the speaker wants to emphasize normalcy rather than exception or novelty. For example: “Tavapäraseid inimesi kohtasin pargis” (I met ordinary people in the park) or “Need on tavapäraseid nähtusi” (These are ordinary phenomena). It is often contrasted with eriline or erakordne, which convey unusual or special qualities.

See also: eriline (special/unusual), tavapära (relating to custom), tavapärasus (ordinariness). The term is primarily used in Estonian-language contexts and follows standard Estonian adjective declension rules.