Arvutab

Arvutab is an Estonian verb meaning to calculate or to compute. It is the third-person singular present indicative form of arvutama, the verb whose infinitive is arvutada. The root arv- is related to numbers, reflecting the word’s mathematical sense. Arvutab can refer to both people and machines performing a calculation, as well as to everyday or figurative computations.

Usage in Estonian is common in mathematics, finance, computing, and data processing, but the word also appears in ordinary discourse when describing any act of determining a value or outcome. For example, a person solving an addition problem might be described as arvutav, while a machine or program that determines results can be said to arvutab. A typical sentence is Ta arvutab välja summa, meaning “He calculates the total.”

Grammatical notes: arvutama is a regular Estonian verb, so arvutab follows standard present tense conjugation patterns. The present tense forms are: ma arvutan, sa arvutad, tema arvutab, me arvutame, te arvutate, nad arvutavad. The verb can be extended with prefixes or particles to convey nuances such as “out” or “up” (e.g., välja arvutada, to figure out).

Related forms include arvutus (calculation), arvutamine (the act of calculating), and arvutaja (a calculator or one who calculates). Arvutab is a functional, neutral term widely used across technical and everyday contexts to denote the act of calculating.