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Estonian frequency list

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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