tagastas

Tagastas is a form of the Estonian verb tagastama, meaning to return or to give back. It is the third-person singular past tense indicative form, used to indicate that someone returned something to another person or to a place. The verb is transitive and typically requires a direct object that is returned, with the recipient often indicated by a dative-like construction.

In usage, tagastas functions as a completed action in the past. For example, in the sentence Ta tagastas raamatu õpetajale, the subject returns the book to the teacher. Here, raamatu represents the item being returned and õpetajale marks the recipient. As a finite verb form, tagastas agrees with the subject in person and number and does not carry the future or conditional meaning on its own.

Tagastas is primarily encountered as a grammatical form within Estonian language contexts. It is not a standalone noun or widely used in English-language terminology. In texts about Estonian grammar or in Estonian sentences, it appears as a standard past-tense construction, rather than as a proper name or independent concept. When teaching or learning Estonian, tagastama and its past tense tagastas are often introduced together to illustrate how verbs in this class express the action of returning.