Vocab: meenutama - to recall

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to recall; to remember; to recall or bring back to mind (a piece of knowledge or a memory from one’s own or someone else’s memory); to be similar to something / to resemble something

Building blocks

• meenu- → to come to mind

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

• -ma → infinitive ending

So meenutama literally means: to make (something) come to mind

How to use it

What to remember

• What or whom you recall/resemble is in the Partitive case (third base form)

• The person or thing you recall or resemble takes the allative case (ending -le)

Example

Tuppa toodud kuuse lõhn meenutab lapsepõlve

Literally: “Room-into brought spruce smell reminds childhood”

Idiomatically: “The smell of the Christmas tree brought into the room reminds childhood”

Tuppa - Noun - Short Illative: "Into room"
toodud - Past Participle: "brought"
kuuse - Noun - Genitive Singular: "spruce"
lõhn - Noun - Nominative Singular: "smell"
meenutab - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Present Tense: "reminds"
lapsepõlve - Noun - Partitive Singular: "childhood"

Muusika meenutab publikule varasemaid kontserte

Literally: “Music reminds audience-onto previous concerts”

Idiomatically: “The music reminds the audience of previous concerts”

Muusika - Noun - Nominative Singular: "Music"
meenutab - 3rd Person Singular, Present Tense: "reminds"
publikule - Noun - Allative Singular: "to (onto) audience"
varasemaid - Adjective - Partitive Plural: "earlier"
konserte - Noun - Partitive Plural: "concerts"