Vocab: mõjutama - to influence
to influence; to affect; to have a physical, mental, or other kind of effect; to cause a change through influence; to lead someone to think or act differently through persuasion or speech
Building blocks
mõju- → "influence" or "effect"
ta- → causative (“to cause an effect”)
-ma → infinitive ending
Mõjutama literally means to cause an effect or influence something/someone.
How to use it
What to remember
Whom or what you influence or affect is in the Partitive Case (third base form)
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Examples
Sotsiaalmeedia mõjutab noorte enesehinnangut
Literally: “Social-media influences young-people's self-esteem”
Idiomatically: “Social media influences young people's self-esteem”
Sotsiaalmeedia - Noun - Nominative Singular: "Social media"
mõjutab - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Present Tense: "influences"
noorte - Noun - Genitive Plural: "young people's"
enesehinnangut - Noun - Partitive Singular: "self-esteem"