Vocab: hoolikas - diligent

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diligent; thorough; careful; showing a sense of responsibility; meticulous; deliberate; attentive

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Building blocks

• hooli- → comes from hool = “care, concern, or attention”

• -kas → an adjective-forming ending (expressing abundance of a quality)

Literally it means ➡️ “having care” or “full of care”

How to use it:

Here is how you use the word “hoolikas” ⬇️

Examples

Kellassepp on oma töös väga hoolikas

Literally: “Watchmaker is his work-in very meticulous”

Idiomatically: “The watchmaker is very meticulous in his work”

Kellassepp - Noun - Nominative Singular: "Watchmaker"
on - Verb - 3rd Person Singular (present tense of olema): "is"
oma - Pronoun - Genitive Singular: "his"
töös - Noun - Inessive Singular: "in work"
väga - Adverb - Indeclinable: "very"
hoolikas - Adjective - Nominative Singular: "meticulous"