Vocab: jätkama - to continue
to continue; to carry on; to continue doing something; to resume an unfinished or interrupted activity; to attach an extension; to join (pieces) together
Building blocks
jätka- → the root → means continuation, extension, something that goes on
-ma → infinitive ending
So jätkama literally means something like: to make something continue / to add a continuation
How to use it
What to remember
What you continue is in the Partitive case (third base form)
See the examples below ⬇️
Examples
Peale gümnaasiumit jätkasin õpinguid ülikoolis
Literally: “After high school continued studies university-in”
Idiomatically: “After high school, I continued my studies at university”
Peale - Preposition - Indeclinable: "After"
gümnaasiumit - Noun - Partitive Singular: "high school"
jätkasin - Verb - 1st Person Singular, Past Tense: "I continued"
õpinguid - Noun - Partitive Plural: "studies"
ülikoolis - Noun - Inessive Singular: "in university"