vastuste

Vastuste is the genitive plural form of the Estonian noun vastus, which means "answer." In this grammatical role, vastuste is used to indicate possession or relation to multiple answers, equivalent to phrases like "of the answers" or "the answers’."

In Estonian, nouns are inflected for cases, and vastus belongs to a class of words whose genitive plural typically ends with the ending -uste. Therefore, vastuste functions as the standard form when referring to something related to several answers. It appears in contexts such as discussing the content of multiple responses, the number of answers, or attributes associated with the answers.

Usage examples include phrases like vastuste sisu (the content of the answers), vastuste arv (the number of answers), and vastuste vahel (between the answers). Because Estonian has no grammatical gender and relies on case endings rather than articles, vastuste clearly marks a plural, possessive, or relational sense without additional determiners.

See also: vastus, Estonian grammar, Estonian noun declension.