tervikuid

Tervikuid is the partitive plural form of the Estonian noun tervik, which denotes a whole, entirety, or aggregate. Grammatically, tervikuid is used when the speaker refers to some, but not all, units of a set of wholes or when the partitive case is required by verbal or syntactic context (for example after negation, with certain aspectual constructions, or to indicate incomplete action or indefinite quantity).

Morphologically, the lemma appears as tervik (nominative singular); common forms include terviku (genitive), tervikut (partitive singular), tervikud (nominative plural) and tervikuid (partitive plural). As a lexical item, tervik and its inflections are used in everyday language, academic discourse and technical writing to discuss systems, objects, or concepts as complete entities or as members of a collection of wholes.

In semantics and usage, occurrences of tervikuid typically emphasize partialness or an unspecified number of complete items — for example, when contrasting parts and wholes or when describing several complete units without enumerating them. The word is rooted in Estonian vocabulary and belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family. In translation, tervikuid is usually rendered into English as “wholes” or “entireties” in contexts that require an indefinite or partial reference to multiple complete units.