Man nav sunya

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Man nav sunya

Postby 0stsee » 2008-08-05, 23:27

Zorba wrote:Mājas = home
Mājās = at home (prepositional)

Mājās man ir kaķis (cat), gulta (bed), galds (table), un dators (computer). Bet man nav suņa. (But I don't have[man nav] a dog) Suns = dog, genitive = suņa.


Sveiki!

Is man/tev/etc. nav always followed by genitive?
Man/tev/etc. ir is followed by nominative right?

Logically, the genitive singular form of suns would be sunya, just as Zorba wrote, but according to a Latvian conjugator it is suns as well. Is it an exception?

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Re: Man nav sunya

Postby mak » 2008-08-06, 6:38

You're right. suns is an exception and it's suņa in the genitive singular.

It's a faulty conjugator. In the future use this, it's not perfect either but it's more accurate:
http://www.letonika.lv/groups/default.a ... suns/0&g=5

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Re: Man nav sunya

Postby Sol Invictus » 2008-08-06, 13:32

words that end with -s in the nominative are 1. declination nouns, except for suns, akmens, ūdens, zibens, asmens, rudens, mēness, which all are 2. declination nouns and are declined as if they had ending -is

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Re: Man nav sunya

Postby 0stsee » 2008-08-06, 13:34

Okej.

Paldies Mak!

Btw, with letonika I can also conjugate verbs!
I still have to guess which form is what, but it's still a great help! :burning:


Sol Invictus wrote:words that end with -s in the nominative are 1. declination nouns, except for suns, akmens, ūdens, zibens, asmens, rudens, mēness, which all are 2. declination nouns and are declined as if they had ending -is

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Re: Man nav sunya

Postby 0stsee » 2008-08-06, 13:38

Btw, I just found a Latvian-German dictionary in the library. I hope it'll help me. :D
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