How to use adjectives in Estonian

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Estonian adjectives

Adjectives are generally used to describe nouns. Adjectives come before the noun in Estonian just like in English.

Examples

väike uks

the small door

punane uks

the red door

uus uks

the new door

roheline uks

the green door

suur uks

the big door

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Step 7 : Adjectives in Estonian

Adjectives are used to describe nouns. To get started, we suggest you learn the three Estonian adjectives suur, väike and vana (big, small, old). Using the nouns raamat, tool and uks (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use each adjective with each noun (the big book, the old chair, the small door). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Estonian adjectives including useful examples. After you've learned to use the adjectives suur, väike and vana with the nouns raamat, tool and uks you can move on to Step 8 (Estonian Verbs).

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