Category:Estonian terms by usage

Estonian terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Estonian childish terms: Estonian terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Estonian colloquialisms: Estonian terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Estonian dated terms: Estonian terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
• Category:Estonian derogatory terms: Estonian terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Estonian dialectal terms: Estonian terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Estonian folk poetic terms: Estonian terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of oral or folk poetry.
• Category:Estonian formal terms: Estonian terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Estonian higher register terms: Estonian terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Estonian honorific terms: Estonian honorific terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Estonian humorous terms: Estonian terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Estonian informal terms: Estonian terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Estonian nonstandard terms: Estonian terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Estonian offensive terms: Estonian terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Estonian poetic terms: Estonian terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Estonian polite terms: Estonian polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Estonian proscribed terms: Estonian terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Estonian rare terms: Estonian terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
• Category:Estonian slang: Estonian colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Estonian technical terms: Estonian terms that are usually or exclusively used in technical/scientific writing.
• Category:Estonian terms with archaic senses: Estonian terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Estonian terms with historical senses: Estonian terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Estonian terms with obsolete senses: Estonian terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Estonian terms with rare senses: Estonian rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:Estonian terms with uncommon senses: Estonian uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
• Category:Estonian vulgarities: Estonian terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.