Liikusid

Liikusid is the Estonian past tense form of the verb liikuma, meaning to move. It is used in the active voice and the indicative mood to describe a movement that took place in the past. The form is part of ordinary sentence construction and does not convey gender; the subject is supplied by context or an explicit subject pronoun.

In usage, liikusid signals that an act of moving occurred previously. It is most commonly seen with plural subjects, as in nad liikusid, which translates to they moved. The same form can appear with other subjects depending on the sentence, with the meaning determined by the surrounding context. Because Estonian verbs encode tense and number through endings, liikusid is a finite form that directly marks past action without requiring additional auxiliary verbs.

The root of the verb, liik-, combines with the infinitive suffix -ama to form liikuma, from which the past tense is derived. The word liikusid thus reflects standard Estonian verb conjugation patterns for past action and movement.

Examples in usage generally describe physical or figurative movement, such as walking, traveling, or progressing along a path, and can be complemented by adverbs or prepositional phrases to specify manner or direction. In written and spoken Estonian, liikusid appears regularly in narratives and reports to convey completed movement in the past.