teadaolevaid

Teadaolevaid is an Estonian inflected form of the adjective teadaolev, meaning known or existing. It is the plural partitive form, used when the modified noun is plural and in the partitive case. In Estonian, adjectives agree with the noun in number and case, and teadaolev takes the teadaolevaid form to describe plural nouns in the partitive, such as teadaolevaid fakte or teadaolevaid probleeme.

The use of teadaolevaid emphasizes that the items are already known or established rather than unknown or hypothetical. This makes the construction common in reporting, summaries, and formal writing where known quantities or aspects are described without asserting total definiteness. For example, teadaolevaid fakte means “known facts,” and teadaolevaid võimalusi means “known possibilities.”

Morphologically, teadaolev forms a stem teada-olev, and the partitive plural suffix -vaid is added to yield teadaolevaid. The form may appear in various syntactic positions where the object of a predicate or a verb requires a partitive plural complement, reflecting partial or non-definite reference to the items being described.

Etymologically, teadaolev is a compound adjective built from teada- (knowledge, known) and the participial ending -olev (being). The specific teadaolevaid form is one of several inflections that allow Estonian adjectives to modify plural nouns in different cases.

See also: teadaolev, Estonian grammar, Partitive case, Adjective inflection.