purustatud

Purustatud is an Estonian adjective formed from the verb purustada, meaning to crush, pulverize, or mash. It denotes that something has been subjected to crushing or grinding and functions as a past passive participle used as an attributive modifier or predicatively.

In everyday and technical language, purustatud is used in various contexts. In cooking, it describes mashed or crushed substances, for example purustatud kartulid (mashed potatoes) or purustatud tomatid (crushed tomatoes). In construction and mining, it refers to materials produced by crushing, such as purustatud kivi or purustatud killustik (crushed stone or crushed aggregate). The term is neutral and widely applicable across registers.

Grammar and usage notes are straightforward: as an adjective, purustatud agrees with the noun in number and case, and can appear before the noun or after a copula in a sentence (for example, Kartulid on purustatud; Kartul on purustatud). Because it expresses a resultant state, purustatud emphasizes the outcome of crushing rather than the process.

Etymology traces purustatud to purustada, the verb for crushing. The form purustatud is the past passive participle, commonly used to describe products, states, or conditions resulting from crushing or mashing. See also purustama and purustamine for related concepts of crushing and processing.