töötavatele
Töötavatele is an Estonian grammatical form that arises from the present active participle töötav, which means “working” or “employed.” The sequence töötavatele represents the dative/plural form of this participial adjective, used to refer to a group described by the participle and treated as the indirect object or beneficiary in a sentence. In practice, töötavatele functions as an attributive modifier that can describe a plural noun in contexts where the action or status of work is being directed toward that group, such as “to/for the working people” or “designed for workers.”
In Estonian, participles often take endings that align with the case and number of the nouns they
Related forms include the base participle töötav and its other declined forms in different cases and numbers.
See also: töötaja (employee), töökas (diligent), Estonian grammar.