Estonian
eesti keel
Main information
Family |
Uralic |
Branch |
Fino-ugric |
Group |
Finnic |
Native speakers |
1,148,690 (2021) |
Status |
National |
Region |
Estonia |
Characteristic
SVO; 14 cases: affixes indicate case of noun phrases; verb affixes mark person, number of subject, and agreement (obligatory); genitives, adjectives, numerals before noun heads; question word initial; word order distinguishes given and new information; active and passive voice; 4 moods in both voices: indicative, imperative, conditional, oblique; 2 infinitives for all verbs; 4 tenses in both voices and all moods: present, past, perfect, pluperfect; 3 degrees of comparison: positive, comparative, superlative; stress on first syllable; possible secondary stress on third syllable; non-tonal.
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