ešte

See also: Appendix:Variations of "este"

Karelian

Regional variants of ešte

North Karelian (Viena)	ešte
South Karelian (Tver)	—

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish este.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeʃtʲe/
• Hyphenation: eš‧te

Noun

ešte (genitive eštien, partitive eštettä)

1. (North Karelian) screen, cover

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of ešte (type 22/kate, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	ešte	eštiet
genitive	eštien	ešteijen
partitive	eštettä	ešteitä
illative	eštieh	ešteih
inessive	eštieššä	ešteissä
elative	eštieštä	ešteistä
adessive	eštiellä	ešteillä
ablative	eštieltä	ešteiltä
translative	eštiekši	ešteiksi
essive	eštienä	ešteinä
comitative	—	ešteineh
abessive	eštiettä	ešteittä
prolative	—	—
instructive	—	eštein

Possessive forms of ešte
1st person	eštieni
2nd person	eštieš
3rd person	eštieh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015), Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN, page 116

Slovak

Alternative forms

• išče, iščo (dialectal)
• ešteže, ešte že

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-

Proto-Indo-European *-kʷe

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éskʷe(h₁)

Proto-Balto-Slavic *eske

Proto-Slavic *ešče

Old Slovak ešte

Slovak ešte

Inherited from Old Slovak ešte. First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eʃce/, [ˈeʃce]
• Rhymes: -eʃce
• Hyphenation: eš‧te

Adverb

ešte

1. again
2. still
3. yet

Conjunction

ešte

1. still
2. yet

Usage notes

To express an interruption by another action.

Particle

ešte

1. even
2. perhaps

Further reading

• “ešte”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026