Dec 16, 2009
Koks Didelis Pasaulis What A Big World
(with special guest-host Antanas)
Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Antanas and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language.
Continuing with our description of Lithuanian banknotes, the 100 litas or šimtas litų banknote is decorated with the portrait of Simonas Daukantas who lived from 1793 to 1864. Simonas wrote the first history of Lithuania in the Lithuanian language and he’s credited with creating a sense of national awareness for the Lithuanian people. The reverse of the bill features Vilnius Old Town.
Banknotes of the
Lithuanian Litas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_Lithuanian_litas
Very well done. This is easy. Okay. Have some beer!
Today we continue with koks – not as a question word but more as an expression of surprise or exclamation
you can use koks or kokia to say things like;
what a beautiful dog!
what a tasty wine!
what a big house!
Now for an important point. If you are talking about something specific you can say things like what a beautiful dog, koks gražus šuo or what a tasty wine, koks skanus vynas. But, if you’re talking about something inspecific and you just want to say, how beautiful! or how tasty! then you wouldn’t use koks or kokia. You’d use kaip and add the neuter form of the adjective.
How beautiful, kaip gražu, how tasty, kaip skanu.
Think of it like this. If you’re going to use koks or kokia then you need to know the gender of the object. Kaip is the word for how, like, as, than, as well as some others. Kaip is genderless.
So, if you use koks or kokia which are concerned with gender, use them with masculine or feminine nouns. Kaip doesn’t care about gender, so use the neuter form of the adjective.
how beautiful
kaip gražu
what a beautiful dog
koks gražus šuo
what a beautiful day
kokia graži diena
how tasty
kaip skanu
what a tasty sandwich
koks skanus sumuštinis
what a tasty pizza
kokia skani pica
pradėkime, let’s get started
1) gražus or graži is an
adjective that means beautiful
2) bjaurus or bjauri is an adjective that means ugly or
nasty
3) didelis or didelė is an adjective that means big
4) mažas or maža is an adjective that means small
5) skanus or skani is an adjective that means tasty or
delicious
Koks and kokia have the same meaning. Koks is tied to masculine nouns. Kokia is tied to feminine nouns.
The same goes for the adjectives gražus or graži, bjaurus or bjauri, didelis or didelė, skanus or skani, mažas or maža.
As you might have guessed, the adjective that ends in –s, is masculine.
So, if the noun is masculine we use the masculine adjective.
vocabulary - žodynas
weather
oras
sky or heaven
dangus
sunset
saulėlydis
pimple
spuogas
a word
žodis
war
karas
thing
daiktas
rain
lietus
creature
padaras
pest
kenkėjas
insect
vabzdys
crab
krabas
eel
ungurys
world or universe
pasaulis
spider
voras
elephant
dramblys
dictionary
žodynas
puppy
šuniukas
garden
sodas
salary
atlyginimas
computer
kompiuteris
baby
kūdikis
Oi is a word that expresses surprise, such as, oh! ah! Oi, koks gražus šuo! Oh, what a beautiful dog!
beautiful
gražus
what beautiful weather!
koks gražus oras!
what a beautiful dog!
koks gražus šuo!
what a beautiful morning!
koks gražus rytas!
what a beautiful life!
koks gražus gyvenimas!
what a beautiful evening!
koks gražus vakaras!
whoa, what a beautiful sky!
oi, koks gražus dangus!
how beautiful is Klaipėda’s museum!
koks gražus yra Klaipėdos muziejus!
whoa, what a beautiful sunset!
oi, koks gražus saulėlydis!
whoa, what a beautiful car!
oi, koks gražus automobilis!
whoa, what a beautiful watch!
oi, koks gražus laikrodis!
ugly
bjaurus
what an ugly word!
koks bjaurus žodis!
whoa, what an ugly pimple!
oi, koks bjaurus spuogas!
what an ugly bird!
koks bjaurus paukštis!
what an nasty life!
koks bjaurus gyvenimas!
what an nasty war!
koks bjaurus karas!
what an ugly thing!
koks bjaurus daiktas!
what an ugly rain!
koks bjaurus lietus!
how ugly is today’s weather!
koks bjaurus šiandien oras!
what an ugly creature!
koks bjaurus padaras!
what an ugly pest!
koks bjaurus kenkėjas!
what an ugly insect!
koks bjaurus vabzdys!
delicious
skanus
what a tasty beer!
koks skanus alus!
wow, how tasty is the crab!
oho, koks skanus yra krabas!
what tasty water!
koks skanus vanduo!
how tasty is Lithuanian food!
koks skanus lietuviškas maistas!
how tasty is Italian food!
koks skanus yra itališkas maistas!
whoa, how tasty is the Japanese food!
oi, koks skanus japoniškas maistas!
what a tasty pie!
koks skanus pyragas!
whoa, what a tasty eel!
oi, koks skanus ungurys!
what tasty wine!
koks skanus vynas!
big
didelis
what a big world!
koks didelis pasaulis!
what a big spider!
koks didelis voras!
what a big flat!
koks didelis butas!
what a big elephant!
koks didelis dramblys!
whoa, what a big dog!
oho, koks didelis šuo!
oh, what a big car!
oi, koks didelis automobilis!
oh, what a big house!
oi, koks didelis namas!
oh, what a big room!
oi, koks didelis kambarys!
what a big cepelinas!
koks didelis cepelinas!
small
mažas
what a small world!
koks mažas pasaulis!
what a small dog!
koks mažas šuo!
what a small dictionary!
koks mažas žodynas!
what a small puppy!
koks mažas šuniukas!
what a small room!
koks mažas kambarys!
what a small garden!
koks mažas sodas!
what a small salary!
koks mažas atlyginimas!
what a small computer!
koks mažas kompiuteris!
what a small baby!
koks mažas kūdikis!
Šaunuoliai! Excellent! You made it to the end of another episode! Puiku!
Tai lengva! (That’s easy!)
Good job, Antanai!