Aug 26, 2008
Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language.
According to the Wikipedia page, List of Lithuanian Gods; Teliavelis was a powerful smith who made the sun and threw it into the sky. This myth survived in folk tales up to the beginning of 20th century.
In the last few episodes we learned how to use the accusative plural and genitive plural in conjunction with a transitive verb – valgyti – to eat. But, we only did masculine nouns.
Today we’ll use some feminine nouns. Feminine nouns are declined in the plural accusative like this:
words that end in –a change to –as
words that end in –ė change to –es
now let’s go over some examples…
a carrot
morka
carrots
morkos
I am eating a carrot
aš valgau morką
I eat the carrots
aš valgau morkas
I am not eating a carrot
aš nevalgau morkos
I am not eating the carrots
aš nevalgau morkų
a
sausage
dešra
sausages
dešros
you are eating a sausage
(tu)
tu valgai dešrą
you eat the
sausages
valgai dešras
you are not eating a
sausage
nevalgai dešros
you do not eat the
sausages
nevalgai dešrų
a
pizza
pica
pizzas
picos
they are eating a
pizza
jie valgo picą
they eat the
pizzas
jie valgo picas
they are not eating a
pizza
jie nevalgo picos
they are not eating the
pizzas
jie nevalgo picų
a
potato
bulvė
potatoes
bulvės
he is eating a
potato
jis valgo bulvę
he is eating the
potatoes
jis valgo bulves
he is not eating a
potato
jis nevalgo bulvės
he is not eating the
potatoes
jis nevalgo bulvių
a
vegetable
daržovė
vegetables
daržovės
she is eating a
vegetable
ji valgo daržovę
she eats
vegetables
ji valgo daržoves
she is not eating a
vegetable
ji nevalgo daržovės
she is not eating the vegetables
ji nevalgo daržovių
(now a conversation on whether or not people should eat squirrels - voverės)
keep in mind when you say aš valgau, you’re saying I eat or I am eating, jis valgo, he eats or he is eating, mes valgome, we eat or we are eating.
Also, if this all seems difficult, don’t worry, we plan to do hundreds or even thousands of examples using many, many verbs to make this easier for you.
Puiku! Excellent! You made it to the end of another episode! Puiku!
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