Vocab: lühinägelik - short-sighted

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short-sighted; near-sighted; unable to see far; (figuratively) lacking foresight; failing to consider long-term consequences

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Building blocks

• lühi- → root from lühike (short)

• näge- → root from nägema (to see)

• -lik → adjective-forming suffix (”having the quality of”)

So literally lühinägelik means: “having the quality of short-seeing”

How to use it:

Here is how you use the word “lühinägelik” ⬇️

Examples

Valitsuse otsus oli lühinägelik – nad ei mõelnud tulevastele põlvkondadele.

Literally: “"The government's decision was short-sighted – they didn't think future-onto generations-onto.”

Idiomatically: “The government made a short-sighted decision — no thought for future generations.”

Valitsuse  –  Noun – Genitive Singular: "The government's"
otsus  –  Noun – Nominative Singular: "decision"
oli  –  Verb – 3rd Person Singular, Past Tense: "was"
lühinägelik  –  Adjective – Nominative Singular: "short-sighted"
nad  –  Pronoun – Nominative Plural: "they"
ei mõelnud  –  Verb – 3rd Person Plural, Past Tense, Negation: "didn't think"
tulevastele  –  Adjective – Allative Plural: "for future"
põlvkondadele  –  Noun – Allative Plural: "for generations"