avustas

Avustas is an Estonian word that serves as the past tense form of the verb avustada, meaning to assist or to help. It is used to indicate that a singular third-person subject performed an act of helping in the past. In Estonian, verb forms carry information about person and number, so avustas corresponds to "he helped" or "she helped" depending on context.

In standard usage, avustas appears in narrative or reported speech to describe completed aid. It is typically found with an explicit or implied subject, as in Ta avustas. The infinitive avustada is used for the general act of helping, while avustas marks a specific past occurrence. The form also participates in the broader system of Estonian past tense conjugation for verbs of this type.

Related terms include avustus, a noun meaning "aid" or "assistance," and other forms in the avustada-verb family. Avustas can appear with various direct objects indicating what was helped, such as a person, project, or task.

See also: avustada, avustus. Notes: While avustas conveys the sense of helping in English, it is specifically the past tense form of the Estonian verb and must agree with the subject in number and person through standard conjugation.