ennustad

Ennustad is the Estonian second-person singular present tense form of the verb ennustama, meaning to predict or forecast. It is a finite verb form used in ordinary speech to indicate that “you” perform the act of predicting. In standard grammar, the present tense forms of ennustama are built from the stem ennusta- with personal endings, so ennustad corresponds to the subject you.

Usage of ennustad typically appears in sentences that describe someone’s prediction or forecast. For example: Sa ennustad, et homme tuleb päike. (You predict that the sun will come tomorrow.) The form is commonly used in everyday language and can occur in both direct statements and sentences embedded with clauses introduced by et (that).

Ennustad should not be confused with related nouns such as ennustus (a prediction) or with ennustaja (a fortune-teller or predictor). Ennustad is a verb form, whereas the nouns refer to the objects or people involved in predicting. The third-person singular form is ennustab (he/she/it predicts), and the first-person singular is ennustan (I predict).

In Estonian, verb forms, including ennustad, carry information about person and number through their endings, allowing speakers to omit explicit subject pronouns in many contexts. This feature is characteristic of Estonian and other Finnic languages, where the verb conjugation provides the primary grammatical cues for person.