Vocab: eemaldama - to remove

to remove; to take away; to eliminate; to prohibit further participation (in a game or competition)

Building blocks

• eemal- - "away" or "at a distance”

• -da- - causative (“make something be X”)

• -ma – infinitive ending

Together, eemaldama literally conveys the idea of "taking away" or "moving something to a distance."

How to use it

What to remember

• From where you remove something is in the Ablative case (ending -lt) - usually when referring to a specific surface or object

• From where you remove something from in the Elative case (ending -st) - usually when referring to a larger, abstract source like an event or location

See these in use ⬇️

Puhastusvahend eemaldas pannilt mustuse

Literally: “Cleaning product removed pan-from grime”

Idiomatically: “The cleaning product removed the grime from the pan”

Puhastusvahend - Noun - Nominative Singular: "Cleaning product"
eemaldas - 3rd Person Singular, Past Tense: "removed"
pannilt - Noun - Ablative Singular: "from pan"
mustuse - Noun - Genitive Singular: "grime"

Miami Heat eemaldas Atlanta Hawksi konkurentsist ning liigub teise ringi

Literally: “Miami Heat removed Atlanta Hawks competition-from and advances second round-into”

Idiomatically: “Miami Heat removed the Atlanta Hawks from the competition and advances to the second round”

Miami Heat - Noun - Nominative Singular: "Miami Heat"
eemaldas - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Past Tense: "removed"
Atlanta Hawksi - Noun - Genitive Singular: "Atlanta Hawks"
konkurentsist - Noun - Elative Singular: "from competitiom"
ning - Conjunction - Indeclinable: "and"
liigub - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Present tense: "advances"
teise - Adjective - Short Illative Singular: "into second"
ringi - Noun -  Short Illative Singular: "into round"