süvad

Söövad is the third-person plural present tense form of the Estonian verb sööma, meaning to eat. It translates as "they eat" or "they are eating" depending on context. Estonian verbs are inflected for number and person; the stem is söö-, and the present tense plural ending is -vad, yielding söövad.

Examples: Nad söövad õunu. (They eat apples.) Lapsed söövad leiba. (The children are eating bread.) The subject can be explicit (nad) or implied from the verb ending; in many sentences the subject pronoun is omitted because the ending already indicates plural third person.

The form contrasts with the singular present tense form 'sööb' (he/she eats) and with other conjugations: 'söön' (I eat), 'sööd' (you eat), 'söömе' (we eat), 'söödate' (you all eat). The infinitive is 'sööma'.