Puhastate

Puhastate is the second-person plural present tense form of the Estonian verb puhastama, meaning to purify or to clean. It denotes that you all are performing the action in the present. The form is built from the verb stem puhast- plus the present-tense plural ending -ate. In Estonian, the verb conjugation for puhastama in the present indicative is: puhastan, puhastad, puhastab, puhastame, puhastate, puhastavad.

Grammatical role and usage

Puhastate is used when addressing two or more people who perform a cleaning or purifying action. It typically governs a direct object in the partitive or, less frequently, in the accusative case, depending on the context and the noun. The subject pronoun te (you) is often implicit through the verb ending, but can be included for emphasis.

Examples

- Te puhastate aknaid. (You all clean the windows.)

- Te puhastate köögi pindu iga nädal. (You all clean the kitchen surface every week.)

Related forms

Puhastama (infinitive) is the base verb meaning to purify or to clean. Other present forms are puhastan (I), puhastad (you singular), puhastab (he/she), puhastame (we), puhastavad (they). The root can also appear in related nouns and adjectives in Estonian, such as puhastus (cleaning, purification).

Etymology and scope

The word derives from puhast- (clean, pure) with typical Estonian verb morphology. Puhastate is common in everyday speech and in formal written Estonian when addressing a group. It does not imply a specific method of cleaning, only the action performed by the addressed plural.