kujutasid

Kujutasid is an Estonian verb form that functions as the past tense of kujutama, meaning to imagine or picture. It is used to describe that someone imagined something in the past, specifically in the second-person singular. The corresponding past tense form for the second-person plural is kujutasite. The less flexible infinitive is kujuta.

In usage, kujutasid appears in narrative and descriptive contexts to convey mental imagery or imagined scenarios. It often governs content that was formed in the mind, such as events, appearances, or futures. A common construction is to pair the verb with phrases like endale ette kujutada, meaning to picture to oneself, or to imagine a particular situation or outcome.

The root kujuta is related to other forms in the same word family, such as kujutis (an image or representation), kujutus (depiction), and kujutamine (imagining or the act of forming an image). These terms are frequently used in discussions of perception, imagination, and visual representation in Estonian.

Etymology generally traces kujutasid back to the verb kujutama, itself derived from the broader Estonian word family concerned with forming mental images or representations. The form is a standard part of Estonian grammar and is encountered in both spoken and written language, especially in storytelling, history recounting, and descriptive prose.