Vocab: sallima

to tolerate

to tolerate

Building blocks

• salli- tolerate

• -ma - infinitive ending

Derived from Proto-Finnic sallidak and originally borrowed from Proto-Germanic salja-.

How to use it

Whom/what you tolerate is in the Partitive case (third base form)

Examples

Sellist käitumist ühiskonnas ei sallita

Literally: “Such behaviour in society not tolerated”

Idiomatically: “This kind of behaviour is not tolerated in society”

Sellist - Pronoun - Part Sg, "Such"
käitumist - Noun - Part Sg, "behaviour" 
ühiskonnas - Noun - Inessive Sg, "in society"
ei sallita - Verb - Impersonal Present Negative, "not tolerated"

Õpetaja ei sallinud laste ulakust

Literally: “Teacher did not tolerate children’s naughtiness”

Idiomatically: “The teacher did not tolerate the naughtiness of the children”

Õpetaja - Noun - Nom Sg, "Teacher"
ei sallinud - Verb - 3P Past Negative, "did not tolerate"
laste - Noun - Gen Pl, "children's" 
ulakust - Noun - Part Sg, "naughtiness"