LITHUANIAN OUT LOUD: Lithuanian Out Loud 0052

Lithuanian Out Loud 0052 - Man Tai Patinka I Like This

Feb 19, 2008

Ready Freddy, Man tai patinka!
Okay! Finally! It’s been so long, where have you been dear?
Maybe you’ve been skiing?
I’ve been skiing!!! Like the wind! From the mountains – down – fast!

Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. Here we are still in the month of February which in Lithuanian is…vasaris.

One of our listeners named Autumn sent me an email alerting us to something interesting. The prime minister of Lithuania is leading a commission that is considering a proposal to change Lithuania’s name in English. Of course, Lithuania’s name wouldn’t be affected in Chinese, German, French, Lithuanian, etcetera. The commission feels that English speakers not only confuse Lithuania and Latvia, they have trouble locating the Baltic nations on a map . The Lithuanian government is very interested in promoting investments and tourism and they think a name change might just do the trick. Thanks for the email and the interesting topic Autumn!

Have you heard about this Raminta?
No!
It’s kind of interesting.
It sounds interesting, I should look.
What do you think Lithuania should be called in English?
Lietuva!

Because of the conversation I had with Margarita in lesson 0051, maybe it’s time to learn how to say, “I like" something. For example, I like the coffee – man patinka kava. The verb patikti means, “to please." Here we’re actually saying, “to me is pleasing the coffee."

prašom pakartoti
please repeat

I like the city
man patinka miestas

I like the university
man patinka universitetas

I like Lithuania
man patinka Lietuva

To get technical, the first word here – man – is an example of naudininkas or the dative case combined with the third person present of the verb patikti. But, we’re not going to study naudininkas much on this episode. We’ll save it for later.
prašom pakartoti, please repeat…

I like
man patinka

you like (familiar)
tau patinka

he likes
jam patinka

she likes
jai patinka

we like
mums patinka

you like (formal)
jums patinka

you all like
jums patinka

they like (male or male/female)
jiems patinka

they like (all females)
joms patinka

Now let’s run through some examples…

Do you like Madonna? (tu)
Ar tau patinka Madona?

Yes, I like Madonna
Taip, man patinka Madona

Do you like ABBA? (tu)

ABBA – likes my father – for sure!
Ar tau patinka ABBA?

Do you like ABBA? (tu)
Ar tau patinka ABBA?

Yes, I like ABBA
Taip, man patinka ABBA

Do you like Romas? (Jūs)
Ar jums patinka Romas?

Yes, I like him
Taip, patinka

Do you like Raminta (Jūs)
Ar jums patinka Raminta?

I like her
Patinka

Do you like England? (Jūs)
Ar jums patinka Anglija?

I like England
Man patinka Anglija

The word “tai" translates as, this, that, these, or those

Do you like this? (tu)
Ar tau tai patinka?

I like this
Man tai patinka

Do you like those? (Jūs)
Ar jums tai patinka?

I like them
Man tai patinka

Does he like that?
Ar jam tai patinka?

He likes that
Jam tai patinka

Does she like these?
Ar jai tai patinka?

She likes these
Jai tai patinka

We can also use this with the infinitive of a verb.

Do they like to dance? (all male)
Ar jiems patinka šokti?

Yeah, they like to dance
Taip, jiems patinka šokti

Do they like to do sports? (mixed m/f)
Ar jiems patinka sportuoti?

Yes, they like to do sports
Taip, jiems patinka sportuoti

Yeah, they like to do sports
Taip, jiems patinka sportuoti

Do they like to sing? (all female)
Ar joms patinka dainuoti?

They like to sing
Joms patinka dainuoti

Sometimes people really like to do something…

Do they like to swim? (all girls)
Ar joms patinka plaukioti?

They really like to swim
Joms labai patinka plaukioti

Do you all like to play?
Ar jums patinka žaisti?

Yes, we really like to play
Taip, mums labai patinka žaisti

Do all of you like the club?
Ar jums patinka klubas?

Oh, we really like the club
O, mums labai patinka klubas

Now, during my interview with Margarita from Vilnius, I asked her, ar jums patinka gerti kavą? We’ll go over this only because we touched on it on the last lesson. Gerti is the verb, to drink. Coffee, or kava, receives the direct action of the verb – you drink the coffee. Sorry to get so technical with you. So, kava is declined using galininkas.

Do you like to drink coffee?
Ar jums patinka gerti kavą?

I like to drink coffee
Man patinka gerti kavą

I like to drink coffee
Gerti kavą - patinka

Does he like to drink coffee?
Ar jam patinka gerti kavą?

He likes it
Jam patinka

Does she like to drink coffee?
Ar jai patinka gerti kavą?

She likes it
Jai patinka

Where does he like to drink coffee?
Kur jam patinka gerti kavą?

Where does she like to drink coffee?
Kur jai patinka gerti kavą?

Now, if we answer the last two questions we’ll start to get into the locative case, or vietininkas. That lesson is still about five episodes away, but we’ll get there. Also, you probably noticed we didn’t go over how to say we don’t like something. Another lesson. To wrap this up let’s do some more simple examples.

I like Klaipėda
Man patinka Klaipėda

Do you like the color? (tu)
Ar tau patinka spalva?

He likes the location
Jam patinka vieta

She likes the car
Jai patinka mašina

We like the country
Mums patinka šalis

Do you like the restaurant? (Jūs)
Ar jums patinka restoranas?

Do you all like the coffee shop?
Ar jums patinka kavinė?

They like the flat (male/female group)
Jiems patinka butas

They like the bookstore (female group)
Joms patinka knygynas

Nuostabu! Wonderful! You made it to the end of another lesson! Nuostabu!

On this lesson you were introduced to quit a few new verbs such as gerti – to drink, and šokti – to dance, to name a couple. We plan to do a lesson in the future for every verb we go over. So, eventually expect to see an episode focused just on gerti, a lesson focused just on šokti, etcetera.

Alright, that’s it for today, we’d like to thank you very much for listening, we appreciate it.

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I’m Jack and I’ve never met a Lithuanian I didn’t like. Viso gero! Sudie!

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Lithuanian Out Loud 0052 - Man Tai Patinka I Like This

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