Estonian belongs to the Finno-Ugric language family, making it a relative of Finnish and (more distantly) Hungarian. Like Finnish, Estonian uses a rich system of grammatical cases — fourteen in total — to express relationships between words that English handles through prepositions and word order.…
Noun declension is the system of changing a noun's form depending on its grammatical function, relationship to other words, and role in a sentence. In Estonian, this means learning how to apply fourteen case endings across singular and plural forms — and navigating the stem changes that can make a…