Pastatyti

Pastatyti is a Lithuanian verb meaning "to build" or "to construct". It is a regular verb belonging to group I, with the infinitive ending -ti. The root stem is pastat‑, which is also used in related nouns such as pastatas ("building") and pastatymo ("construction"). In the present tense the forms are pastatauju, pastatai, pastatą, pastatome, pastatote, pastataujate. The past tense is pastatiau, pastatė, pastatė, pastatėme, pastatėte, pastatėja, and the future tense uses the auxiliary sveikasis būklės: pastatysiu, pastatysite, pastatys cu.

Etymologically, pastatyti derives from the root pastat‑, which appears in Proto‑Baltic cognates and traces back to an ancient Indo‑European root meaning "to pile up" or "to erect". The comparative form pastainkis is used in idiomatic expressions such as "pastatysiu duris" ("I will build a door").

Usage spans both literal construction contexts—building houses, bridges, or other structures—and metaphorical contexts, for example “pastatyti plačiau” meaning "to expand" or "to elaborate". In Lithuanian literature and news media, pastatyti frequently appears in reports of infrastructural development and real‑estate projects.

Related verbs include sinerti (“to assemble”) and grožinėti (“to decorate”), which sometimes combine with pastatyti in compound forms like pastatyti ir grožinti (to build and decorate). The noun form > pastatas is the most common companion word, and the phrase pastatų statyba refers specifically to building construction.