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Morphology<br />
and word<br />
formation<br />
The principal way of forming words in<br />
Estonian is by adding derivative affixes to<br />
the stem. Estonian has about one hundred<br />
derivative affixes, almost all of them<br />
(there are two exceptions: eba-, and<br />
mitte- ‘un-‘, ‘non-‘, ‘in-‘) are suffixes.<br />
The typical Estonian sentence<br />
Täppidega lipsud sobivad esinduslikele teatrijuhtidelegi<br />
(Spotted ties suit even representative theatre directors)<br />
täppi-de-ga ‘spot, speckle’-plural-comitative (=with)<br />
lipsu-d ‘necktie’-plural<br />
sobi-vad ‘suitable’-3rd person-plural (-vad
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