No. 589 in Estonian
toona
"Toona" means "at that time" or "back then" in English.
In a sentence
Toona käisin igal suvel vanaema juures maal.
Back then, I used to visit my grandma in the countryside every summer.
In this sentence, *toona* is used as a temporal adverb to refer to a specific time in the past.
Ma ei teadnud toona, kuidas seda probleemi lahendada.
I didn't know back then how to solve that problem.
Here, *toona* specifies a particular moment in the past when the knowledge or event being discussed occurred.
Toona oli talv väga külm ja lumine.
That winter was very cold and snowy back then.
In this example, *toona* clearly situates the description of a past event, emphasizing the conditions during a specific time period.
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