Läksime

Läksime is the first-person plural past tense form of the Estonian verb minna, meaning "to go." It translates most directly as "we went" and is used when the subject is we and the action took place in the past. The form is built from the stem läks- with the personal ending -ime, which marks the first-person plural in this tense.

Usage in Estonian centers on describing a past movement or departure. For example, Läksime kooli means "We went to school." The form is common in everyday speech and in narrative to recount past events. In many contexts it denotes a completed action, though it can participate in broader past-tense storytelling depending on surrounding clauses.

Grammatical notes: läksime is in the indicative mood and simple past tense. It has related forms for other persons and numbers, such as läksin (I went), läksid (you went), läksite (you went, plural), and läksid (they went). The verb minna is irregular in its past tense forms, with läks- as the common stem across the person-specific endings.

Phonology: läksime is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable: LÄKS-i-me. The Estonian letter ä indicates a front open vowel, and the word follows the language’s characteristic stress pattern where the first syllable of a word typically carries the stress.

See also: Estonian verb conjugation, the verb minna (to go), and related past tense forms for the person and number in Estonian.