Vocab: viisakas - polite

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 polite; courteous; well-mannered; decent

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Building blocks

• viis → way/manner (as in a way of doing things)

• -aka- → adjectival suffix (implies having the quality of)

• -s → adjective forming ending

So literally "viisakas" means "having good manners" — someone who conducts themselves in the right way.

How to use it:

Here is how you use the word “viisakas” ⬇️

Examples

Lapsed õpetati olema viisakad võõraste inimestega

Literally: “Children were-taught to-be polite strangers people-with”

Idiomatically: “The children were taught to be polite to strangers”

Lapsed - Noun - Nominative Plural: "children"
õpetati - Verb - Impersonal Past: "were taught"
olema - Verb - Infinitive: "to be"
viisakad - Adjective - Nominative Plural: "polite"
võõraste - Adjective - Genitive Plural: "of strangers/strangers'"
inimestega - Noun - Comitative Plural: "with people"