Vocab: valmistama - to prepare
to prepare; to make; to manufacture; to produce; (mainly about objects, products, food:) to make; (usually about some feeling:) to evoke, to cause, to create
Building blocks
valmis- → ready/finished/prepared
-ta- → (causative) means to make something happen
-ma → infinitive ending
So literally valmistama means: “to make ready”
How to use it
What to remember
What you prepare or cause, is in the Partitive case (third base form)
Example
Lapse edu valmistas vanematele suurt uhkust
Literally: “Child’s success caused parents-onto great pride”
Idiomatically: “The child’s success made the parents very proud”
Lapse - Noun - Genitive Singular: "The child's"
edu - Noun - Nominative Singular: "success"
valmistas - Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Past Tense: "caused"
vanematele - Noun - Allative Plular: "to/for the parents"
suurt - Adjective - Partitive Singular: "great/big"
uhkust - Noun - Partitive Singular: "pride"