esindas

Esindas is a grammatical form in the Estonian language, specifically the third-person singular past tense of the verb esindama, which means to represent. It is used in sentences that describe someone or something having represented another person, organization, or entity in the past.

In usage, esindas appears in contexts such as politics, law, business, and diplomacy, where an individual or institution is acting on behalf of someone else. It conveys actions completed in the past and can be applied to a range of subjects, from companies to countries.

Examples of esindas in sentences include: Ta esindas ettevõtet kohtumisel. (He represented the company at the meeting.) Riik esindas oma huve rahvusvahelisel konverentsil. (The state represented its interests at the international conference.) These illustrates how the form functions across different domains and registers.

Related linguistic forms exist within the same verb family, such as the base verb esindama (to represent) and other inflected forms for different tenses and subjects. The concept of representation is also carried in nouns related to the idea, such as esindus (representation or agency) and esindaja (representative), which are used to discuss the act or person involved in representation rather than the action itself.

Esindas therefore serves as a precise way to express a completed act of representation by a third-person subject in Estonian, and it sits within a broader system of verb conjugation that marks person, number, and tense.