Grammar: des-Form
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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