to have a part in something succeeding or progressing, to impone, to bring to the table
Building blocks
We can break down panustama
into different parts:
panus- contribution, bet, bid,
-ta- causative (“make something be X”),
-ma - infinitive ending
How to use it
What you contribute to something is a regular object, i.e. use the partitive for contributing a certain amount of something / contributing something regularly.
Use the Genitive (in Singular) and the Nominative (in Plural) to contribute something once/fully.
To what you contribute is indicated by the Illative, i.e. the “into” case (ending with -sse
).
Examples
Maksumaksja panustab riigi julgeolekusse
Literally: “The taxpayer is contributing the state’s security-into”
Idiomatically: “The taxpayer is contributing to state security”
Maksumaksja - Noun, Nom Sg, "Taxpayer"
panustab - Verb - 3P Ind Sg, "contributes"
riigi - Noun - Gen Sg, "the state's"
julgeolekusse - Noun - Illative Sg, "into security"
Eduka maratoni läbiviimiseks panustasime palju töötunde
Literally: “Of a successful marathon’s carrying-out-for we contributed many working hours”
Idiomatically: “In order to carry out a successful marathon, we contributed many working hours”
Eduka - Adjective - Gen Sg, "(a) successful"
maratoni - Noun - Gen Sg, "marathon"
läbiviimiseks - Noun - Translative Sg, "for the purpose of carrying out"
panustasime - Verb - 1P Plural Ind Past, "we contributed"
palju - Adverb - "many"
töötunde - Noun - Partitive Plural, "working hours"