Vocab: ettearvamatu - unpredictable
unpredictable; hard or impossible to predict; unforeseeable
Building blocks
ette- → “ahead” or “in advance”
-arvama- → “to guess”, “to suppose” or “to think”
-tu → a negative suffix meaning “not” / “without” (similar to -less in English)
It literally means “not able to guess in advance”.
How to use it:
Here is how you use the word “ettearvamatu” ⬇️
Examples
Meri on siin piirkonnas ettearvamatu ja ohtlik
Literally: “Sea is here area-in unpredictable and dangerous”
Idiomatically: “The sea in this area is unpredictable and dangerous”
Meri - Noun - Nominative Singular: "Sea"
on - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Present Tense: "is"
siin - Adverb - Indeclinable: "here"
piirkonnas - Noun - Inessive Singular: "in area"
ettearvamatu - Adjective - Nominative Singular (agreeing with meri): "unpredictable"
ja - Conjunction - Indeclinable: "and"
ohtlik - Adjective - Nominative Singular (agreeing with meri): "dangerous"