asutas

Asutas is primarily an Estonian verb form. It is the third-person singular past tense of asutama, meaning to found or establish. The form is used to describe that someone or something founded an organization, institution, settlement, or enterprise in the past. For example, Ta asutas kooli 1920. aastal, meaning “He founded a school in 1920.”

Grammatically, asutas appears in past-tense constructions with a subject (the founder) and an object (what was founded). The infinitive of the verb is asutada. Related nouns include asutus (institution or establishment) and asutaja (founder), which reflect the act or the agent of founding rather than the past-tense verb itself.

Asutas is not an English word with its own independent meaning; outside Estonian texts it is typically encountered as a foreign-language form or as part of a proper noun. In most cases, it appears only in Estonian-language material or in translated contexts where Estonian grammar is preserved.

See also: asutus (institution), asutaja (founder), asutama (to found).