Vocab: heatahtlik - kind-hearted

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kind-hearted; friendly; caring; well-meaning; good-natured

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Building blocks

• hea- → means “good”

• taht- → derived from tahtma (“to want”), here meaning “having the will”

• -lik → an adjective-forming ending

So heatahtlik literally means: “having a good will.”

How to use it:

Here is how you use the word “heatahtlik” ⬇️

Examples

Tema suhtumine patsientidesse on alati heatahtlik, mõistev ja hooliv

Literally: “His/her attitude patients-into is always kind-hearted, understanding, and caring”

Idiomatically: “His/her attitude towards patients is always kind-hearted, understanding, and caring”

Tema - Pronoun - Nominative Singular: "His/Her"
suhtumine - Noun - Nominative Singular: "attitude"
patsientidesse - Noun - Illative Plural: "into patients"
on - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Present Tense: "is"
alati - Adverb - Indeclinable: "always"
heatahtlik - Adjective - Nominative Singular: "kind-hearted"
mõistev - Adjective - Nominative Singular: "understanding"
ja - Conjunction - Indeclinable: "and"
hooliv - Adjective - Nominative Singular: "caring"