Lithuanian Out Loud 0031 - Veidas Face

Nov 5, 2007

In Lithuanian, veidas, means “face."  Are you familiar with the popular Lithuanian magazine called Veidas?  It’s amazingly similar to the U.S. magazines Time and Newsweek, bursting with full color photos, national and international news, charts, graphs, entertainment news, history, etc.
My hubby discovered this gem when he visited the webpsite Balticshop.com looking for a gift for some close Lithuanian friends.  One way to get a subscription to Veidas is to go to Balticshop.com.  They have a wide selection of Lithuanian gifts.  Balticshop.com will also send you a large, full color catalog full of photographs of their Lithuanian gifts.  They’re based in the U.S. and no I wasn’t paid nor did I receive any compensation to mention them on Lithuanian Out Loud.  The Veidas magazine subscription, as I recall, wasn’t cheap.  I think it was around $200.00 but our friends get the magazine every week for a year.  It’s a special gift for a special friend.

Okey dokey!  On the last lesson we went over feminine nouns in the genitive case or kilmininkas.  Let’s do some more on the same theme so that we’ve really got it.

As we learned in episode 0025,
Aš amerikietė is a female saying, “I’m American"
Aš anglė is a female saying, “I’m English"
Aš lietuvė is a female saying, “I’m Lithuanian"
Aš rusė is a female saying, “I’m Russian"

But, amerikietė can also mean the American woman or girl,
anglė can also mean the Englishwoman or girl,
lietuvė can also mean the Lithuanian woman or girl and
rusė can also mean the Russian woman or girl. 
Does it all make sense?

So, let’s take the Lithuanian word for wife – žmona..
The name of the wife or the vardas of the žmona
The word žmona changes to žmonos

prašom pakartoti
please repeat

The wife’s name                     
žmonos vardas

The American woman’s name  
amerikietės vardas

The Englishwoman’s name        
anglės vardas

The Lithuanian girl’s name        
lietuvės vardas

The Russian girl’s name           
rusės vardas

Alright!  Now I think we have a very good understanding of how to change feminine nouns into the genitive case or kilmininkas.
Ready for a challenge?  Please try to say it in Lithuanian Out Loud before and after me.  Here we go!  Prašom pakartoti…

The American girl’s book             
amerikietės knyga

The English girl’s name                
anglės vardas

The Russian woman’s house        
rusės namas

The Lithuanian woman’s brother  
lietuvės brolis

The Japanese woman’s sister        
japonės sesuo

The Italian girl’s room                  
italės kambarys

The Latvian girl’s city                  
latvės miestas

The Polish woman’s restaurant    
lenkės restoranas

Raminta’s book                          
Ramintos knyga

Austėja’s amber                         
Austėjos gintaras

The wife’s room                         
žmonos kambarys

Sandra’s restaurant                    
Sandros restoranas

Kristina’s sister                           
Kristinos sesuo

Raminta’s husband                     
Ramintos vyras

Austėja’s house                         
Austėjos namas

Sandra’s brother                        
Sandros brolis

Raminta’s city                           
Ramintos miestas

Kristina’s amber                        
Kristinos gintaras

Woo hoo!  Did you remember the word for amber?  Okay, that was bit unfair.  Please play this section over and over again till you’ve got it down pat.

On the next episode of Lithuanian Out Loud we’ll start in on the genitive case using masculine nouns.

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Lithuanian language lessons at the University of Vilnius:
http://www.lsk.flf.vu.lt/index.php/pageid/154

Animation of Gediminas Castle or Gedimino Pilis:
http://paulius.vkt.lt/pilis/files/pilis.swf