"Names of the days of the week"

Hi everybody!

In todays lesson we will be learning how to say the names of the days of the week in Estonian.

The names of the days of the week:

Monday - Esmaspäev
Tuesday - Teisipäev
Wednesday - Kolmapäev
Thursday - Neljapäev
Friday - Reede
Saturday - Laupäev
Sunday - Pühapäev

Word PÄEV means DAY

Day - Päev

The first 4 days will be easy to remember because they literally give you the order of the days.

Esmaspäev
Esmas / päev
First - esimene 

Teisipäev 

Teisi / päev
Second - teine

Kolmapäev
Kolma / päev

Third - kolmas

Neljapäev

Nelja / päev
Forth - Neljas

Obviously Friday is such special day that we don't even bother to call it a day XD - reede. I have no idea why it is like that :). If anyone know's let me know ;). 

Pühapäev
Püha - holy, we also call celebrative holidays - püha
Jõulupüha - Christmas 

More useful vocabulary:

week - nädal

today - täna

tomorrow - homme

yesterday - eile

the day after tomorrow - ülehomme

the day before yesterday - üleeile

workday - tööpäev

restday - puhkepäev

Example sentences:

1. Today is Monday. - Täna on esmaspäev
Täna - today
is - on 

2. Tomorrow is Tuesday. - Homme on teisipäev. 

Homme - Tomorrow

3. Yesterday was Sunday. - Eile oli pühapäev. 

Eile - Yesterday

4. The day before yesterday was a fun day. - Üleeile oli tore päev. 

 Üleeile - the day before yesterday

oli - is in past tense

tore - fun

* In Estonian we do not write the days of the week with the capital letter, unless it is in the start of a sentence. Also for further information, Estonian language generally doesn't like capital letters. In English people tend to use them a lot but in estonian it's probably safer not to use capital letters, unless it's a name (person, city, country [however the people in the country like Estonian would be lower case - eestlane, same with he languages eesti keel] place etc.)

** Estonian language doesn't have future tense. It is expressed by using relevant words like "tomorrow".  Great example is a sentence that is often used in songs or other places similar. Oli, on ja jääb.  It was, it is and it stays.   Oli (was) is past tense of on (is), jääb comes from a word jääma - to stay and could be used anywhere, there is no future tense the change comes from TA JÄÄB - he/she/it stays.  However it will give us the idea of eternity.

Hope that explanation will help you to understand how the language works better :)



Good luck!

Names of the Colours

Hello everybody!
In todays lesson we will be learning how to say the names of the colors in Estonian.

The most commonly used colors and their names: 

Red - Punane

Blue - Sinine

Yellow - Kollane

Green - Roheline

Orange - Oranž

Brown - Pruun

Purple - Lilla

Grey - Hall 

Pink - Roosa

Black - Must

White - Valge

Golden - Kuldne

Silver - Hõbedane

Some more useful words: 

Dark - Tume

Light - Hele

Neon - Neoon

Color - Värv

Colours - Värvid

Example sentences: 

1. I like Green Color. - Mulle meeldib roheline värv.
 ( mina - me)  to me/ as for me - mulle
to like - meeldima  ---> I like - mulle meeldib 
2. Rainbow is colorful. - Vikerkaar on värviline. 

Rainbow- vikerkaar

is - on

Extra sentences that were not in the video: 

3. What is your favourite color? - Mis on sinu lemmik värv? 

What - mis

is - on

you - sina --> your/yours - sinu

favourite - lemmik

color - värv

3.1 to answer the question you could either use the example nr 1.  or  you can say ....

3.2 My favourite colour is ... . - Minu lemmik värv on ... .

You can fill in the gap with any color name you prefer. 

3.3 If you would like to mention more than 1 colour you can say:

Minu lemmik värvid on roheline ja lilla.

 värv ---> värvid (plural) 

... X and Y. - ... X ja Y.  ---> you just need yo add the and in between the colours. Simple :)

4. Sky is blue. - Taevas on sinine. 

Sky - taevas
is - on

blue - sinine

5. Red skirt. - Punane seelik.
Skirt - seelik

5.1 This skirt is red. - See seelik on punane. 

This - see     

skirt - seelik 

is - on  

red - punane

Good luck with your studies!!!