Jump to content

vastama

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Estonian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Proto-Finnic *vastat'ak. Equivalent to vast +‎ -ma. Cognate with Finnish vastata and Votic vasatõ.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /ˈvɑstɑmɑ/, [ˈvɑstɑmɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑstɑmɑ
  • Hyphenation: vas‧ta‧ma

Verb

[edit]

vastama (da-infinitive vastata)

  1. (transitive) to answer, to respond (to say something or react in some other way to a question, suggestion, opinion, etc.) [with allative ‘to’ or comitative ‘with’]
  2. (transitive) to respond (to send one's own letter, message in response to a letter, message, etc.) [with allative ‘to’]
  3. (transitive) to respond (to respond to an action with one's own action) [with allative ‘to’ or comitative ‘with’]
  4. (transitive, about feeling unrequited love) to reciprocate [with allative]
  5. (transitive) to suit (to be in accordance with something, to be suitable for something) [with allative]

Conjugation

[edit]

References

[edit]
  • vastama in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • vastama”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009