need help mostly with estonian grammar

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hi to estonian natives/speakers.

i need help in some linguistic points of ranged difficulty such as:

when is the Subject of Present Passive Voice (-kse)/Past Passive Voice (-ti) in Nominative and when is it in Partitive?

or:

"mis ajal süüakse Eestis õhtust?": does this mean "when does one eat in Estonia?" "mis ajal?" means "when?" like "on what time?" and what does "õhtust" mean? is the latter in Elative and why if thats the case?

i d really appreciate it if someone could give me some answers. i m willing to get them one way or another, so it doesnt matter if you ve seen this post after a month or a year. feel free to contact me.

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astronaut-anna profile picture astronaut-annaOctober 2013
tere yes, the question means "what time is dinner eaten in Estonia". õhtust refers to õhtusöök, meaning dinner.
õhtust is a funny word, because it is like evening, but it is declined in a different way. so you can say tere õhtust (also the same with hommikust), even though the partitive should be õhtut.
the nominative and partitive thing...I think it is about finished or unfinished issue...so "eile söödi õunu" - partitive, some apples were eaten yesterday, but "eile söödi õunad ära" the apples we eaten yesterday, nominative
NataljaK profile picture NataljaKSeptember 2013
"õhtust" - "evening", and" mis ajal" - "on what time",or "when(about time)"