registreeruma

Registreeruma is an Estonian verb meaning to register oneself, enroll, or sign up for a service, event, or process. It is the reflexive form of the related transitive verb registreerima, which means to register in the sense of creating an official record or documenting information. The reflexive form emphasizes that the subject carries out the action on themselves rather than registering something else.

The verb is used in a variety of contemporary contexts, including signing up for courses, registering for events, creating online accounts, or completing administrative procedures. It can appear in formal, bureaucratic, and everyday language, often in phrases that specify what is being registered (for example, a person for an event, a user for a service, or oneself for a program). The construction is flexible and may incorporate reflexive pronouns or other sentence elements as needed to convey emphasis or specificity.

Grammatically, registreeruma follows standard Estonian verb patterns and forms across tenses and moods. The non-reflexive counterpart registreerida is used when the action targets an object or third party rather than the speaker. The verb also participates in common participial forms, such as registreerunud, which denotes a completed registration. In practice, registreeruma is a common, widely understood term in both written and spoken Estonian.