Vajutas

Vajutas is the Estonian past tense form of the verb vajutama, which means to press, push, or apply pressure. It denotes a completed action where a subject exerts force on a button, lever, or similar control, resulting in activation or change of state.

The form is used in narrative to describe actions that occurred in the past. A typical usage is with a direct object representing what was pressed, for example, pressing a button. In everyday speech, you might hear sentences such as Ta vajutas nuppu, meaning that he or she pressed the button.

Morphology and related forms: Vajutas is the third-person singular simple past tense. The verb’s infinitive is vajutada. Other forms cover present and past conjugations, such as ma vajutan (I press), sa vajutad (you press), ta vajutab (he/she/it presses), me vajutame, te vajutate, nad vajutavad, and past tense forms like ma vajutasin, sa vajutasid, me vajutasime, etc. The noun form vajutus refers to the act or process of pressing.

Usage notes: Vajutama and its past tense vajutas are common in both spoken Estonian and written text, and they appear in contexts ranging from everyday instructions to journalistic reporting. The sense encompasses pressing a physical control as well as applying pressure in a more figurative sense, though the latter is less frequent in standard usage.

See also: vajutada, vajutus.