Vocab: koguma - to collect
to collect; to gather; to accumulate; to bring or gather something from different places into one place (by searching); to save something and put it aside as a reserve
Building blocks
kogu- → from the noun kogu (whole, entire, total)
-ma → infinitive ending
So literally koguma means: “to bring into a whole”
How to use it
What to remember
What you collect is in the Partitive case (third base form)
Example
Lapsed koguvad sügisel pargis kastaneid ja lehti
Literally: “Children collect autumn-on park-in chestnuts and leaves”
Idiomatically: “Children collect chestnuts and leaves in the park in autumn”
Lapsed - Noun - Nominative Plural: "Children"
koguvad - Verb - 3rd Person Plural, Present Tense: "collect"
sügisel - Noun - Adessive Singular: "on autumn"
pargis - Noun - Inessive Singular: "in park"
kastaneid - Noun - Partitive Plural: "chestnuts"
ja - Conjunction - Indeclinable: "and"
lehti - Noun - Partitive Plural: "leaves"