Estonian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *katkët'ak. Cognate to Finnish katketa (to break, to snap), Veps katketa (to break) and possibly Udmurt куашканы (kuaškany, to decay, to break, to fall apart)

Verb

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katkema (da-infinitive katkeda)

  1. to break (in two), to fall apart
  2. to stop, to halt, to temporarily stop, to end

Conjugation

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