õpetad

Õpetad is the second-person singular present tense form of the Estonian verb õpetama, which means to teach or to instruct. The form indicates that the subject of the sentence is you (informal singular, sa). It is used to describe or request that someone teaches something in the present.

Grammatical notes: Estonian verbs are conjugated for person and number, and the ending -ad marks the second person singular present for many verbs whose infinitive ends in -a, such as õpetama. The related present-tense forms include õpetan (I teach), õpetad (you teach), õpetab (he/she teaches), õpetame (we teach), õpetate (you all teach), and õpetavad (they teach). Because Estonian is highly inflected, the subject pronoun sa is often omitted when the verb form clearly encodes the person.

Usage: Õpetad is commonly used in everyday speech and formal writing to express teaching activity performed by the listener. It can describe ongoing teaching at a school, in a workshop, or in informal guidance. The form is also found in constructions that express instructional actions directed at someone else, for example when giving feedback or instruction.

Examples: Sa õpetad mind matemaatikas. (You teach me mathematics.) Sa õpetad lapsi lugema. (You teach children to read.) These illustrate how the verb form directly signifies the second person singular subject without needing an explicit pronoun.