Puhastame

Puhastame is an Estonian verb form, the 1st person plural present indicative of the verb puhastama, meaning to clean or purify. It expresses that the speaker and at least one other person are performing the action of cleaning.

In Estonian, verbs are conjugated for person and number. The 1st person plural present ends with -ame, as in puhastame. The subject is often implicit, but can be included for emphasis: Me puhastame ruume (We clean the spaces).

Usage encompasses both literal cleaning—such as cleaning rooms, surfaces, or facilities—and more figurative or environmental contexts, like cleaning up a city or purifying a process. It appears in everyday speech, service-industry communications, and civic or environmental campaigns, and may also function in slogans or collaborative statements: Puhastame oma elukeskkonda (We clean our living environment).

Related forms include the infinitive puhastama (to clean), the noun puhastamine (cleaning, purification), and the noun puhastus (cleaning, cleansing). The word belongs to a broader family of Estonian terms connected to cleanliness and hygiene and is widely understood in normal conversational and written Estonian.