tervislikke

Tervislikke is the partitive plural form of the Estonian adjective tervislik, meaning healthy. In Estonian, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number, case, and gender; when the noun is plural and in the partitive case, the adjective takes the ending -ke, yielding tervislikke. The partitive is used to express an indefinite quantity or partial objects, and it is common after numerals, in negative clauses, and in expressions describing non-specific amounts.

Tervislikke is most often encountered in contexts related to nutrition, food, and lifestyle. It functions as a modifier for plural nouns in the partitive case, for example in phrases such as tervislikke tooteid (healthy products), tervislikke toite (healthy foods), or tervislikke eluviise (healthy lifestyles). Although the word itself is simply a grammatical form, its meaning is conveyed through the noun it describes, typically indicating items considered beneficial to health or consumed in a health-conscious context.

In usage, tervislikke contrasts with other forms of tervislik (such as tervislikud in the nominative plural) depending on the syntactic role of the noun. It is a standard feature of Estonian morphology and a common component of everyday phrases in health, diet, and advertising discourse.