tehnoloogilisel

Tehnoloogilisel is a form of the Estonian adjective tehnoloogiline, meaning technological. It is used to describe a noun in contexts that require a particular inflected form, reflecting the language’s system of case endings for adjectives. In everyday usage you may encounter phrases such as tehnoloogilisel viisil (in a technological manner) or tehnoloogilisel arendamisel (in technological development), among others.

In Estonian, adjectives do not have gender and they inflect for number and case to agree with the noun they modify. The base form, tehnoloogiline, corresponds to the singular nominative, while forms like tehnoloogilisel arise when the adjective is combined with a noun in a specific grammatical case. The exact ending signals the syntactic role of the entire phrase within the sentence. Because of its technical connotation, tehnoloogilisel is most commonly found in formal, academic, or policy-oriented writing that discusses technology or technological processes.

Etymology and usage: The word is derived from the noun tehnoloogia (technology) with the standard Estonian suffix -iline to form an adjective meaning “technological.” The inflected form tehnoloogilisel enables precise expression of context, such as manner, place, or action connected to technology, and it helps situate technology within broader discourse.

See also: tehnoloogiline, tehnoloogia, Estonian grammar, adjectives in Estonian.