Vocab: toetama - to support
to support; to back; to give support to; to stand by someone; (physically:) to prop up, to hold up; (about an idea or proposal:) to endorse, to be in favour of
Building blocks
toe-→ root from the noun tugi (support, prop)-ta-→ causative (turns it into “to give/to cause support”)-ma→ infinitive ending
So literally toetama means: “to give support/to prop up”
How to use it
What to remember
What or whom you support is in the Partitive case (third base form).
Example
Vanemad toetavad oma last rahaliselt.
Literally: “Parents support their child financially.”
Idiomatically: “The parents support their child financially.”
Vanemad — Noun — Nominative Plural: "Parents"
toetavad — Verb — 3rd Person Plural, Present Tense: "support"
oma — Pronoun (reflexive possessive) — Indeclinable: "their (own)"
last — Noun — Partitive Singular: "child"
rahaliselt — Adverb — Indeclinable: "financially"