Decode Estonian

Decode Estonian

Grammar: des-Form

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Dario Hamidi
May 20, 2023
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Like other agglutinative languages, Estonian is really good at packing a lot of meaning into concise forms of words.

One of these forms is the so-called “des-Form”, which can replace a whole clause in English!

And what’s even better: this form is really easy to construct!

Let’s see what it means, how to construct it, and then which sentences we can eliminate thanks to it!

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