Editing Estonian language (section)

==Grammar==
{{main article|Estonian grammar}}
Typologically, Estonian represents a transitional form from an [[agglutinating language]] to a [[fusional language]]. The canonical word order is [[subject–verb–object|SVO]] (subject–verb–object), although often debated among linguists.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Martin |first=Ehala |date=March 2006 |title=The Word Order of Estonian: Implications to Universal Language |journal=Journal of Universal Language |volume=7 |pages=49–89|doi=10.22425/JUL.2006.7.1.49 |s2cid=52222499|doi-access=free }}</ref>

In Estonian, nouns and pronouns do not have [[grammatical gender]], but nouns and adjectives decline in fourteen cases: [[nominative]], [[genitive]], [[Partitive case|partitive]], [[illative]], [[inessive]], [[Elative case|elative]], [[allative]], [[adessive]], [[ablative]], [[translative]], [[terminative]], [[essive]], [[abessive]], and [[comitative]], with the case and number of the adjective always agreeing with that of the noun (except in the terminative, essive, abessive and comitative, where there is agreement only for the number, the adjective being in the genitive form). Thus the illative for ''kollane maja'' ("a yellow house") is ''kollasesse majja'' ("into a yellow house"), but the terminative is ''kollase majani'' ("as far as a yellow house"). With respect to the [[Proto-Finnic language]], elision has occurred; thus, the actual case marker may be absent, but the stem is changed, cf. ''maja – majja'' and the [[Swedish dialects in Ostrobothnia|Ostrobothnia dialect]] of Finnish ''maja&nbsp;– majahan''.

The verbal system has no distinct future tense<ref name="apj">{{cite journal |last1=Pérez |first1=Efrén O. |last2=Tavits |first2=Margit |date=2017 |title=Language Shapes People's Time Perspective and Support for Future-Oriented Policies |journal=American Journal of Political Science |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=715–727 |doi=10.1111/ajps.12290 |doi-access=free}}</ref> (the present tense serves here) and features special forms to express an action performed by an undetermined [[Subject (grammar)|subject]] (the "impersonal").