Vocab: lõpetama - to finish

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to finish; to end; to complete; to conclude; to bring something to an end; (about school:) to graduate

Building blocks

• lõpe- → from the noun lõpp (end)

• -ta- → causative suffix (to make something happen)

• -ma → infinitive ending

So literally, “lõpetama” means “to make something end/to bring to an end.”

How to use it

What to remember

What you finish takes the Genitive case (second base form)

Example

Ma lõpetasin raamatu eile õhtul.

Literally: “I finished book yesterday evening-on.”

Idiomatically: “I finished the book last night."

Ma - Pronoun - Nominative Singular: "I"
lõpetasin - Verb - 1st Person Singular, Past Tense: "finished"
raamatu - Noun - Genitive Singular (total object): "book"
eile - Adverb - Indeclinable: "yesterday"
õhtul - Noun - Adessive Singular: "in the evening"