Vocab: eksima - to be mistaken
to be mistaken; to be wrong; to make a mistake; to lose one's way, to get lost; to stray from the right path
Building blocks
eksi- → root (idea of going off course, straying)
-ma → infinitive ending
So literally eksima means: “to go astray”
⚠️ Don't mix up eksima (to go wrong yourself) with eksitama (to lead someone else astray, to mislead)
How to use it
What to remember
The concrete thing you got wrong takes the Comitative (ending -ga): eksisin nimega, kuupäevaga, numbriga
Example
Ma eksisin sinu nimega
Literally: “I was-mistaken your name-with”
Idiomatically: “I got your name wrong”
Ma - Pronoun - Nominative Singular: "I"
eksisin - Verb - 1st Person Singular, Past Tense: "was mistaken"
sinu - Pronoun - Genitive Singular: "your"
nimega - Noun - Comitative Singular: "with the name"