külastab

Külastab is an Estonian verb meaning "visits." It is the present tense, third person singular form of the verb külastama, which denotes the act of visiting a person, a place, or an event. The usage covers everyday visits to locations such as museums or schools, as well as visits to people.

In Estonian, külastama is a regular verb of the -ama type. The present tense forms include ma külastan (I visit), sa külastad (you visit), ta külastab (he/she/it visits); we külastame, you all külastate, they külastavad. The past tense is formed with the standard -as/-asid pattern, for example ta külastas (he/she visited), me külastasime (we visited). Future reference can be expressed with periphrastic constructions such as ta hakkab külastama (he will begin to visit) or ta kavatses külastada (he intended to visit).

Objects commonly accompany külastab, with the object expressed in the genitive or partitive depending on context, for example ta külastab muuseumi (he visits a museum) or ta külastab oma sõpru (he visits his friends).

Related terms include külastus, the noun meaning “the act of visiting” or “a visit,” and külastaja, meaning “visitor.” The form külastab is widely used in everyday language to describe current visits, while other forms of the verb cover past and future references.