This is the 589th most frequent Estonian word.
toona
"Toona" means "at that time" or "back then" in English.
In this example, *toona* clearly situates the description of a past event, emphasizing the conditions during a specific time period.
Toona oli talv väga külm ja lumine.
That winter was very cold and snowy back then.
Here, *toona* specifies a particular moment in the past when the knowledge or event being discussed occurred.
Ma ei teadnud toona, kuidas seda probleemi lahendada.
I didn't know back then how to solve that problem.
In this sentence, *toona* is used as a temporal adverb to refer to a specific time in the past.