Vocab: lubama - to promise
to promise; to allow; to authorize; to permit; to give permission or consent for something to be done or to take place; to give a promise about something; to confirm that something will happen; to give hope
Building blocks
luba- → "permission", "license", or "permit"
-ma → infinitive ending
It´s derived from the Proto-Finnic lubat'ak, meaning “to allow”, “to permit”, or “to promise”.
How to use it
What to remember
Whom you allow to do something is in the Adessive Case (ending -l) and what you allow them to do is in the -da infinitive
See these in use ⬇️
Examples
Õpilastel ei lubatud telefoni kasutada
Literally: “Students-on not allowed phone to use”
Idiomatically: “The students were not allowed to use the phone”
Õpilastel - Noun - Adessive Plural: "On students"
ei lubatud - Verb - Impersonal, negative, Past tense: "were not allowed"
telefoni - Noun - Partitive Singular: "phone"
kasutada - Verb - da-Infinitive: "to use"