Jutustasid

Jutustasid is the past tense form of the Estonian verb jutustama, meaning to narrate or to tell a story. It marks a completed act of recounting something and is used when describing what someone told or narrated in the past.

Morphology and usage guidelines: Jutustasid can function for two subjects in the past tense: either second person singular (you told) or third person plural (they told). The full past tense paradigm of the verb shows how other persons are formed as well, for example ma jutustasin (I told), ta jutustas (he/she told), me jutustasime (we told), te jutustasite (you told). Context determines which subject is intended when the single form jutustasid appears. The form is typically followed by an object in the accusative or partitive case, such as a tale (loo) or events being recounted, and can be accompanied by temporal or locational modifiers.

Etymology and related forms: Jutustama is built from the noun jutt, meaning story or tale, with a verbal suffix that conveys narration. Related words include jutustus (a narrative or short story), and the verb forms jutustama and jutustada, which share the same semantic core of storytelling or recounting.

See also: jutustama, jutt, jutustus.