Vocab: keelama - to forbid
to forbid; to ban; to prohibit; to not allow; to restrict
Building blocks
keela- → from the noun keel — "tongue, language" — but here in the sense of "prohibition, ban"
-ma → infinitive ending
So literally keelama means: "to use the tongue against something" → to put a verbal stop to it
How to use it
What to remember
The thing being forbidden is in the Partitive case (third base form)
The person being forbidden from doing something is in the Adessive case (ending -l)
Example
Arst keelas patsiendil alkoholi juua
Literally: “Doctor forbade patient-on alcohol to-drink”
Idiomatically: “The doctor forbade the patient from drinking alcohol”
Arst - Noun - Nominative Singular:"Doctor"
keelas - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Past Tense: "forbade"
patsiendil - Noun - Adessive Singular: "the patient"
alkoholi - Noun — Partitive Singular: "alcohol"
juua - Verb — da-Infinitive: "to drink"