täiustavaid

Täiustavaid is an Estonian word form that comes from the verb täiustama, meaning to improve or perfect. It is the present active participle form, used as a participial adjective, and appears in its partitive plural inflection before a noun. In this function, it describes something that is performing or characterized by the action of improving.

In usage, täiustavaid modifies a plural noun and is typically found in contexts where the noun is in the partitive case. A common sense of the phrase is “improving” or “that improve.” For example, täiustavaid meetodeid can be translated as “methods that improve” or “improving methods.” The participial form agrees with the noun in number, and the overall phrase follows Estonian agreement rules for adjectives and participles.

Morphologically, the base form täiustav combines the root täiusta- with the present active participle ending, and the ending -vaid marks the partitive plural form used for the modifying phrase. Like other present active participles in Estonian, täiustav and its inflected forms function similarly to adjectives, providing information about the noun's action or quality.

Usage notes: täiustavaid is relatively formal and more likely to appear in written or technical texts. In everyday speech, speakers may opt for synonyms such as parandav (improving) depending on the context.

See also: täiustama, täiendama, paranda.