Vocab: hoolitsema - to take care of

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to take care of; to care for; to protect someone from harm; to keep something in good condition; to make something happen or exist

Building blocks

• hoolitse- → root from "hool" (care) + -itse, which turns it into a verb meaning "to care" or "to take care of"

• -ma → infinitive ending

So, "hoolitsema" literally means "to care" or "to take care"

How to use it

What to remember

• Whom or what you take care of is in the genitive case (the second base form), and you add the postposition 'eest' “for”

See these in use ⬇️

Examples

Vabatahtlikud hoolitsevad varjupaiga loomade eest

Literally: “Volunteers take care of shelter animals for”

Idiomatically: “Volunteers take care of the shelter animals”

Vabatahtlikud - Adjective - Nominative Plural: "Volunteers"
hoolitsevad - Verb - 3rd Person Plural, Present Tense: "take care of"
varjupaiga - Noun - Genitive Singular: "shelter"
loomade - Noun - Genitive Plural: "animals"
eest - Postposition - Indeclinable: "for"