tugevamas

Tugevamas is a form of the Estonian adjective tugev, meaning strong. It represents the comparative grade and is used to express that something is stronger or more powerful than another thing in a given context. In standard Estonian, the basic comparative is formed with the stem and the ending -am, giving tugevam for the nominative singular. The form teine, such as tugevamas, appears when the comparative adjective is inflected for case and number, for example in phrases that require the adessive or other cases.

Usage of tugevamas is common in descriptive writing and everyday speech when comparing states, abilities, or intensities. Examples include: Ta on tugevamas vormis kui enne. (He is in a stronger form than before.) See on tugevamas olukorras. (This is in a stronger/ more favorable situation.) In phrases like tugevamas konkurentsikeskkonnas, the word conveys a sense of greater strength or resilience within a particular environment.

Grammatically, tugevam is the basic comparative form, with tugevaim as the superlative. Tugevamas functions as the inflected form of tugevam to fit a sentence’s case, number, and definiteness. The term is primarily a grammatical one, used to describe a degree of strength rather than referring to a specific proper noun or branded concept.

See also: tugev (strong), tugevam (stronger), tugevaim (strongest). The word is part of standard Estonian morphology and usage for expressing comparative strength.