No. 578 in Estonian
pandeemia
A pandemic.
In a sentence
Pandeemia mõjutas oluliselt maailma majandust.
The pandemic significantly affected the global economy.
In this sentence, "pandeemia" is used as the subject of the sentence, representing a major event impacting a specific domain, here the global economy.
Valitsus teatas uutest meetmetest, et pandeemia levikut aeglustada.
The government announced new measures to slow down the spread of the pandemic.
Here, "pandeemia" is used as a direct object to indicate the phenomenon that the measures aim to address.
Pandeemia ajal õppisid paljud inimesed kaugtööga toime tulema.
During the pandemic, many people learned to cope with remote work.
In this case, "pandeemia" functions as part of a temporal adverbial phrase, setting the time frame for the actions described.
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