Vocab: vastu pidama - to endure

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to endure; to withstand; to last; to hold out; to persist; to maintain patience

Building blocks

• vastu → "against" or "in opposition to"

• pidama → "to hold" or "to keep"

Literally, "vastu pidama" translates to "to hold against" or "to keep against." It conveys the idea of enduring, resisting, or lasting against something.

How to use it

What to remember

• The thing you withstand, endure, or resist is in the Allative case (ending -le)

See this in use ⬇️

Kas see sild peab tormidele vastu?

Literally: “Will this bridge hold storms-onto against?”

Idiomatically: “Will this bridge withstand the storms?”

Kas - Adverb - Indeclinable: "Will"
see - Pronoun - Nominative Singular: "this"
sild - Noun - Nominative Singular: "bridge"
peab (vastu) - Compound Verb - 3rd Person Singular, Present Tense: "hold"
tormidele - Noun - Allative Plural: "onto storms"
vastu - Adverb (part of the compound verb) - Indeclinable: "against"