“tee” is embedded into the name and not separate (#Pilvetee would not count anyway!).

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Part of the #Lilleküla bird-name group of streets. See also #Rähni. Why a language obsessed with the letter ‘k’ (about 15% of #Estonian words begin with this) would drop it is curious.

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#Birds #Linnud
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Finished Chapter 4 lesson 4 and Chapter 5 lesson 1 of Estonian today.
Also made progress on my video editing project💻🎥

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Finished Chapter 4 Lesson 3 of Estonian!
Next up: drawing some illustrations for my study materials ✍️

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#Müürivahe (Müürivahe)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Between the (city) walls. Müüri, however, is singular, so maybe ‘space behind the city wall’ (i.e. the arcades) would be a better rendering, although given its earlier German name of
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Part translator of Stanislavsky, and winner, lucky lad, of a Stalin Prize (1952) and Order of Lenin (1956). Lauter also means boat slip or landing stage for fishing boats, and its genitive is lautri, so
#Ships #Laevad
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star, which has a tail; sabaga täht (#syntagm): star with tail; or sabatäht (#compoundword): tail-star; all of which fail to meet his demand for simplicity, esthetics and efficiency, you pick a new one from selected sources and Bob sinu onu on! It was probably
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approaching within three yards of it, he wrote in #German and, as penance, became reader in #EstonianLanguage at the University of #Tartu from 1842-50. #Faehlmann treated a wide range of patients from potatoless peasants to #BaronessBruiningk (1818-53) revolutionary sympathizer and sometime
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(On the declension of Estonian nouns, a copy of which was owned by Napoleon’s linguist nephew Louis-Lucien Bonaparte, known for his almost definitive opus on Basque verbs, but I digress), a topic causing violent baldness in anyone
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#Grammar #Grammatika
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whether #Pagi and #Paagi would be confused. However, with the first in #Mustjõe and the second in #Paljassaare, there didn’t seem much risk. My own take on this is, given #Estonia’s obsession with the length of its vowels, there’s no way they’d confuse the two.
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things a sense of negation, completeness, or in and of itself. For example: #umbkeelne refers to someone incapable of making themself (‘themself’?... Not everyone likes it, but this use of ‘they’ and derivatives as singular pronoun for a person of unspecified sex
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and why compound words involving #sepp (smith) do not usually involve a genitive in the first place I don’t know (see #Kullassepa, #Rätsepa & #Sepa, [although perhaps they do, see #Nõmme]) – then the #Russians either translating it nearly correctly as
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As to why, however, it is not quite clear: the street was never fully yellow in the first place. Perhaps the thought that an adjective requires a noun? Or to avoid the awkward use of a substantivized adjective, ‘the yellow’, or the idea of ‘yellowness’ (kollasuse)?
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#Jannseni J.V. (Johann Voldemar Jannsen, 1819-1890)
Known affectionately as “#PapaJannsen”. First professional #Estonian journalist and father of #LydiaKoidula, he published the first #EstonianLanguage newspaper
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kivimäe
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(1880-1973), inventor of numerous #languagereforms and #neologisms (oddly, the ones most people recall, dare we raise the cranial lid on the #Estonian subconscious, are #relv, weapon, from revolver, and #mõrv, murder, from German Mord), as well as
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OK, now in "English", too: why and how do Estonians celebrate the 500th anniversary of a book of which nothing remains but which may have existed? #eestiraamat500 #eestiraamatuaasta #EstonianLanguage
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