tööalaseid

Tööalaseid is a grammatical form in Estonian: it is the partitive plural form of the adjective tööalane, which means work-related or occupational. It is used before plural nouns in partitive or accusative case, to describe something that relates to work in a non‑definite or indefinite sense.

In usage, tööalane describes topics, skills, knowledge or issues connected to work, employment or profession. It commonly appears in educational, professional and policy texts, as well as in HR and recruitment contexts. The form tööalaseid specifically appears when the accompanying noun is plural in partitive or accusative case, for example with nouns like teadmisi, oskusi or küsimusi.

Typical collocations include work-related knowledge (tööalaseid teadmisi), work-related skills (tööalaseid oskusi), and work-related questions (tööalaseid küsimusi). It also appears in phrases about research topics, training content and occupational health or policy discussions. The broader adjective työalane can be used in nominative singular (tööalane) or other cases to describe a single work-related matter, while tööalaseid is the form you will see before plural partitive/accusative nouns.

Etymologically, tööalane combines töö (work) with alane (related to), producing a term widely used in Estonian to classify aspects connected to the world of work.