teavet

Teavet is the inflected form of the Estonian noun teave, which means information or data. In everyday usage, teave refers to knowledge that can be communicated, stored, or processed, and it is a central concept in settings ranging from journalism to research and IT.

In Estonian grammar, teave is declined and teavet is its partitive/genitive singular form, used with verbs that require an object in the partitive case or to indicate an indefinite quantity of information. For example, you might say, “Palun anna mulle teavet projekti kohta” (Please provide me with information about the project) or “Meil on palju teavet ettevõtte kohta” (We have a lot of information about the company). Teavet can also appear in sentences like “Ta jagas teavet” (He shared information), depending on the surrounding verb and case requirements.

In practical terms, teave is a core term in discussions about information gathering, data sharing, and knowledge management. It appears in media reports, academic writing, and IT contexts where information needs to be described, exchanged, or analyzed. The form teavet does not denote a separate concept beyond teave itself; it reflects the grammatical need of the sentence rather than a different sense of the word.

See also: teave, teade (another Estonian word related to information and notices). Teavet is primarily a grammatical variant of teave used in certain syntactic constructions.