Vocab: piirama - to restrict
to restrict; to constrain; to limit; to enclose; to surround; to mark off (with boundaries or markers); to encircle (militarily); to trim; to prune
Building blocks
piira- → comes from piir (border, limit, boundary)
-ma → infinitive ending
So literally “piirama” means something like: “to do a boundary” or “to act by setting a limit/border”
How to use it
What to remember
With what you restrict something is in the Comitative case (ending -ga)
Example
Linnavalitsus piirab autoliiklust kesklinnas uute liiklusmärkidega
Literally: “City-government limits car-traffic city-centre-in new traffic-signs-with”
Idiomatically: “The city government limits car traffic in the city center with new traffic signs”
Linnavalitsus - Noun - Nomiantive Singular: "City government"
piirab - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Present Tense: "limits"
autoliiklust - Noun - Partitive Singular: "car traffic"
kesklinnas - Noun - Inessive Singular: "in city centre"
uute - Adjective - Genitive Plural: "new"
liiklusmärkidega - Noun - Comitative Plural: "with traffic signs"