gadalaiks
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Etymology
[edit]From gada (“year[gen.]”) + laiks (“time”), probably a calque of German Jahreszeit.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]gadalaiks m (1st declension)
- season of the year (i.e., spring, summer, autumn, winter: periods of the year characterized by different average weather conditions)
- silts, auksts gadalaiks ― warm, cold season
- lietains, sauss gadalaiks ― rainy, dry season
- klimatiskie gadalaiki ― climatic seasons
- viņa pati bija kā dzimtenes daba ar tās četriem gadalaikiem, kas cits aiz cita mijas ― she herself was like (our) homeland nature with its four seasons, which came one after the other
- gleznotāja audeklos tēloti gadalaiki... tur ir pavasari un vasaras, tur ir rudeņi un ziemas ― in the painter's canvasses the seasons (were) depicted... here are springs and summers, there are autumns and winters
Declension
[edit]Declension of gadalaiks (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | gadalaiks | gadalaiki |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | gadalaiku | gadalaikus |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | gadalaika | gadalaiku |
dative (datīvs) | gadalaikam | gadalaikiem |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | gadalaiku | gadalaikiem |
locative (lokatīvs) | gadalaikā | gadalaikos |
vocative (vokatīvs) | gadalaik | gadalaiki |
Synonyms
[edit]See also
[edit](seasons) četri gadalaiki; pavasaris, vasara, rudens, ziema (Category: lv:Seasons)