Seiskamist

Seiskamist is an Estonian noun that denotes the act of stopping or coming to rest. It is the partitive singular form of the noun seiskamine, which is derived from the verb seiskama, meaning to stop or to stand. Seiskamine refers to the general process of coming to a halt, while seiskamist appears in sentences where the action is treated as a mass or indefinite portion, or as the object of a preposition or verb that governs the partitive case.

In usage, seiskamist is most often found in formal or technical contexts, including traffic regulations and legal texts, where it describes the act of stopping a vehicle or other movement. For example, a sentence might state that “sõiduki seiskamist on lubatud ainult märgistatud alal,” meaning that stopping a vehicle is allowed only in designated areas. In everyday speech, speakers more commonly use seiskamine or seiskumine to refer to stopping or halting, with seiskamist appearing mainly as a syntactic form rather than as a stand-alone common term.

Related terms include seiskamine and peatumine, which can carry overlapping or nuanced meanings regarding stopping, halting, or coming to rest. In traffic language, seiskamine and peatamine are often distinguished by context and duration, with seiskamist serving as a grammatical form in phrases that require the partitive case.