Õhtusele

Õhtusele is a grammatical form in Estonian. It is the allative singular form of the adjective õhtune, meaning “evening” or “of the evening.” In Estonian, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in case, number, and definiteness. When the noun phrase is in the allative case (often indicating direction toward something), the adjective takes the corresponding allative ending, giving õhtusele.

Use and function

The primary use of õhtusele is to modify a noun in the allative case, typically referring to an event or activity scheduled for the evening or directed toward the evening. It appears in phrases where both the adjective and the noun are in the allative, such as õhtusele üritusele or õhtusele sündmusele, meaning “to the evening event.”

Common contexts

- Invitations and schedules, to specify events occurring in the evening: Läksime õhtusele üritusele. (We went to the evening event.)

- Descriptions of time-marked events that are located in the evening: Õhtusele sündmusele on oodatud kõik külalised.

Relationship to related forms

Õhtusele is related to other allative adjective forms, which occur when adjectives precede nouns in the allative case. It is not a standalone noun or adverb; it is a inflected form used to express direction toward or targeting an evening-themed noun.

See also

Estonian adjective declension, allative case, examples of allative adjective usage in Estonian texts.