Vocab: rõhutama - to emphasize
to emphasize; to stress; to highlight; to say something as an important point; to make something more visible
Building blocks
rõhk- → the root, it means pressure, stress, or emphasis
-ta- → causative (“make something be X”)
-ma → infinitive ending
So rõhutama literally means: “to put pressure/emphasis on something.”
How to use it
What to remember
What you emphasize is in the Partitive case (third base form)
See the example below ⬇️
Examples
Uuring rõhutab hariduse tähtsust
Literally: “Study emphasizes education importance”
Idiomatically: “The study emphasizes the importance of education”
Uuring - Noun - Nominative Singular: "Study"
rõhutab - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Present Tense: "emphasizes"
hariduse - Noun - Genitive Singular: "education"
tähtsust - Noun - Partitive Singular: "importance"