Tue, 26 August 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
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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Dear Jack and Raminta, I am writing to express my sincere gratitude for this incredible resource you have provided. It has been my desire to learn the Lithuanian language ever since I have been married to my wonderful wife, Violeta. Violeta is a Polish citizen from the Punskas region near the Lithuanian border, and like others from there, her first language is Lithuanian. I have been there twice, but only for short periods of time. I am hoping to go again soon and spend some time traveling through Lithuania. It will be nice to have some basics of the language for the next time I am there. Your podcasts are unbelievable, especially considering they are non-commercially produced. They have helped me immensely to both learn some of the language and to keep me motivated to continue learning. I hope that you continue with the podcasts for a long time to come. I’m only at lesson 50 right now as I only discovered your podcasts a few weeks ago, but I hope to catch up to the current lessons soon. A big fan of yours, Dave, Toronto, Canada
