katkestab

Katkestab is the third-person singular present tense form of the Estonian verb katkestama. The verb means to interrupt, cut off, or discontinue, and it is used to describe stopping a process, ending an activity, or breaking a continuity in various contexts, from everyday speech to technical or formal writing.

Usage of katkestama is transitive, meaning it takes a direct object. Common objects include conversations (vestlus/vestluse), meetings (koosolek/koosoleku), connections (ühendus/ühenduse), and tasks (töö/ülesanne). For example, Ta katkestab vestluse (He interrupts the conversation). In a technical sense, it can describe a connection or service being disrupted, as in Server katkestab ühenduse kliendiga (The server disconnects the client).

Grammatical notes: Katkestab appears in the present tense, while other forms include katkestas (past), katkestatud (past passive/participated), and infinitive katkestama. The related noun is katkestus, meaning interruption or outage, and it is often used to refer to a disruption event or temporary cessation of activity.

In usage, katkestama and its forms convey a deliberate or abrupt ending of an ongoing action, whether by a person, a device, or a system. The term is common in everyday Estonian, but it is also found in technical documentation and news reporting when describing service interruptions, disconnections, or interrupts to processes.