kiirendasid

Kiirendasid is the past tense plural form of the Estonian verb kiirendada, meaning to speed up or to accelerate. It is used when the subject is plural and the action occurred in the past. The verb kiirendada belongs to the group of Estonian verbs that express rapidness or acceleration, and kiirendasid appears in contexts where multiple subjects accelerate something or speed up a process.

In usage, kiirendasid can describe actions across different domains, such as transportation, work, or scientific experiments. It conveys the idea that the pace or speed was increased compared with a previous state. The form is standard in written and spoken Estonian for past-tense narration involving more than one actor.

Examples:

- Nad kiirendasid tööd, et projekt lõpetada õigeaegselt. (They accelerated the work to finish the project on time.)

- Sõit oli pikk ja liiklus tihe, seetõttu kiirendasid nad sõitu. (The journey was long and traffic was heavy, so they sped up the drive.)

- Nad kiirendasid eksperimendi sooritamist, et saada tulemused varem. (They accelerated the execution of the experiment to obtain results earlier.)

Notes:

- Kiirendasid is the standard third-person plural past-tense form; corresponding forms exist for other persons and tenses.

- The term is primarily a grammatical description in a linguistic or encyclopedic context; in everyday Estonian, the same concept is conveyed with the appropriate past-tense form of kiirendada, matched to the subject.

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