tekitavat

Tekitavat is a word form found in Finno-Ugric languages, most recognizably as a variant or misspelling of the Estonian present plural form "tekitavad," from the verb tekitama, meaning "to cause," "to create" or "to give rise to." In Estonian grammar tekitavad functions as the third-person plural present tense, used to indicate that a plural subject produces an effect or brings something into being. Example: "Need muudatused tekitavad küsimusi" ("These changes raise questions").

The form derives from the verb stem tekit- plus the infinitive-forming suffix -ama and the present plural ending -vad. In practice, "tekitavad" appears across formal and informal registers in written and spoken Estonian whenever causation, generation or inducement is expressed by a plural agent. Related nouns and adjectives include tekitaja (causer, creator) and tekitatav (that which can be caused or created), which may appear in technical contexts to describe inducible or generable phenomena.

Outside Estonian, similar-looking forms may occur in other languages or as proper nouns, brand names or typographical variants; such uses are distinct from the grammatical verb form and are context-dependent. When encountered, it is useful to consider context and spelling (particularly the presence or absence of the consonant d) to determine whether the intended term is Estonian tekitavad or a different lexical item.