tehnilisel

Tehnilisel is an Estonian adjective form used in the adessive case, most often appearing in phrases that describe something from a technical or technological perspective. The base word is tehniline, meaning technical or technological, and tehnilisel marks a relationship to a noun in contexts such as “on a technical level” or “in a technical sense.”

In everyday and formal Estonian, tehnilisel appears in constructions like tehnilisel tasandil (on a technical level) and tehnilisel viisil (in a technical way). It is the adessive singular form, and it combines with nouns in the same case to express relatedness to technology, procedures, or mechanisms. The form is common in technical writing, journalism, and academic discourse when contrasting technical considerations with social, political, or ethical ones.

Etymology traces tehnilisel to the adjective tehniline (technical) and follows standard Estonian inflection patterns, where the adjective takes an agreed form to modify a noun in a specific case. Related terms include tehniline (technical), tehnika (technology/technique), and tekniline (a similar root in some languages referring to technical domains).

Notes for readers: Tehnilisel is not a standalone concept but a grammatical form used to attribute technical characteristics to a noun within a sentence. Its appropriate use depends on the target noun being in the adessive case and on the surrounding grammatical structure. Examples of typical usage primarily occur in professional or analytical writing.

See also: tehniline, tehnika.