tühjendada

Tühjendada on Estonian verb meaning to remove all contents from something, i.e., to empty or drain a container, space, or vessel. It is used for both liquids and loose contents, as well as for figurative contexts when something is emptied of its contents or energy.

The action is transitive; it requires an object that is being emptied. Typical contexts include emptying a bottle, a cup, a container, or a room. In everyday language one may say that a person tühjendas pudeli or that a tank was tühjendatud. The related noun tühjendamine denotes the act of emptying, while the adjective tühjenen- or the present participle forms describe the process or characteristic of becoming empty.

Morphology and related forms: the base form is tühjendada; from it derive tühjendama (to empty, infinitive in some constructions), tühjendamine (emptying), and forms for different tenses and moods like tühjendasin (I emptied) or tühjeneb (becomes empty). Antonyms include täitma or täituda (to fill, to be filled). Synonyms or near-synonyms in use include loomuliku või eesmärgiga väljapääsu loogika „tühjaks tegema” (to make empty) as a multi-word expression.

Etymology: tühjendada is built from the Estonian adjective tühj (empty) with a verb suffix, forming a common causative/performative verb. The word participates in standard Estonian verb inflection and follows regular conjugation patterns for -da/-ta verbs.

See also: täitma (to fill), tühjendamine (emptying), tühjenemine (becoming empty), tühjaks tegema (to make something empty).