Vocab: parandama - to repair
to repair; to improve; to fix; to mend; to improve; to better; to enhance; to correct; to amend
Building blocks
paran- → related to the Estonian verb paranema (‘to get better, to heal, to improve’), the root paran- itself carries the core idea of becoming whole again, restoring, improving, or curing
-da- → causative (“make something be X”)
-ma → infinitive ending
Parandama = “to make something better” — whether by fixing what is broken, correcting what is wrong, or improving what is not good enough.
How to use it
What to remember
What you fix is in the Partitive Case (third base form)
See the example below ⬇️
Examples
Treening parandab vastupidavust ning aitab vähendada stressi
Literally: “Exercise improves endurance and helps to reduce stress”
Idiomatically: “Exercise improves endurance and helps reduce stress”
Treening - Noun - Nominative Singular: "Exercise"
parandab - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Present Tense: "improves"
vastupidavust - Noun - Partitive Singular: "endurance"
ning - Conjunction - Indeclinable: "and"
aitab - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Present Tense: "helps"
vähendada - Verb - da-Infinitive: "to reduce"
stressi - Noun - Partitive Singular: "stress"