Vaatasin

Vaatasin is a grammatical form in the Estonian language. It is the first-person singular past tense of the verb vaatama, which means to watch or to look. This form is used to describe a completed act of watching by the speaker.

In terms of morphology, vaatasin is a finite verb form derived from the stem vaata- with the past tense suffix -sin, yielding the meaning “I watched.” It appears in clauses with a subject pronoun (for example, Ma vaatasin filmi eile) or with the subject understood from context. The form serves as the main predicate in a sentence and can be followed by a direct object such as filmi (a film).

Usage notes and examples help illustrate its function. The time reference is provided by context or by adverbs like eile (yesterday) or hiljuti (recently). For instance, Ma vaatasin filmi eile means “I watched a film yesterday.” Vaatasin does not by itself indicate the specific time beyond the past viewpoint; the surrounding sentence or discourse supplies that information.

See also: Estonian grammar, Estonian verbs, vaatama. In dictionaries, vaatama is listed as the lemma, with vaatasin noted as the 1st person singular past tense form. The form Vaatasin is not a proper noun and is capitalized only when it begins a sentence.