Vocab: tundlik - sensitive

sensitive; emotionally receptive; delicate; easily offended; something that must be handled carefully; painful to touch; responsive to physical irritation; not very resistant to something; (devices or materials:) easily, quickly, and effectively responsive

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Building blocks

• tund- → comes from the verb tundma (“to feel,” “to sense,” “to know”)

• -lik → an adjective-forming ending, that means "having the quality of" or "characterized by"

So, tundlik literally means: “having the quality of feeling”

How to use it:

Here is how you use the word “tundlik” ⬇️

Examples

Pärast traumat jäi koht pikaks ajaks tundlikuks

Literally: “After trauma remained area long-into time-into sensitive-into”

Idiomatically: “After the trauma, the area remained sensitive for a long time”

Pärast - Adverb - Indeclinable: "After"
traumat - Noun - Partitive Singular: "trauma"
jäi - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Past Tense: "remained"
koht - Noun - Nominative Singular: "area"
pikaks - Adjective - Translative Singular: "into long"
ajaks - Noun - Translative Singular: "into time"
tundlikuks - Adjective - Translative Singular: "into sensitive"