Vocab: osalema - to participate
to participate; to take part; to partake; to take part in an activity together with others
Building blocks
osa- → part
-le- → verb-forming suffix (makes the verb “to be part of”)
-ma → infinitive ending
Literally, osalema = “to be part (of something)”
How to use it
What to remember
Where you participate is in the Adessive case (ending -l)
In what you participate is in the Inessive case (ending -s)
See the example below ⬇️
Examples
Kõik liikmed osalevad iganädalasel koosolekul
Literally: “All members participate weekly-on meeting-on”
Idiomatically: “All members participate in the weekly meeting”
Kõik - Pronoun - Nominative Plural: "All"
liikmed - Noun - Nominative Plural: "members"
osalevad - Verb - 3rd Person Plural, Present Tense: "participate"
iganädalasel - Adjective - Adessive Singular: "on weekly"
koosolekul - Noun - Adessive Singular: "on meeting"Õpilased osalesid uues teadusprojektis
Literally: “Students took-part new-in research-project-in”
Idiomatically: “The students took part in the new research project”
Õpilased - Noun - Nominative Plural: "Students"
osalesid - Verb - 3rd Person Plural, Past Tense: "took part"
uues - Adjective - Inessive Singular: "in new"
teadusprojektis - Noun - Inessive Singular: "in research project"