Lithuanian Out Loud 0117 - Dvidešimt Viena Diena 21 Days

Sep 14, 2008

Hi there, I’m Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud.  Today we’ll start the show off with a very nice email, then on to another awesome installment of Agnė iš Vilniaus.  Thank you Agnė for taking the time to record this for us.  Starting with today’s episode we’re going to do a series of programs on numbers.  It may not be the most exciting stuff we can offer, but we have to go over it sometime, so we’ll do it now.  Also, we’re up to 33 positive reviews on the Lithuanian Out Loud iTunes page, thanks to everyone for helping us with these.  Remember, our goal is 50 so we only need 17 more.  Can you help us out?  Thanks!  Enjoy the program and here is an email from Lithuania…

Dear Jack and Raminta:
I thought you might like to know that our Lithuanian professor, Radvyda Vasvilaitė, sent us your link when she sent us her class schedule.  LCC International University has a large number of new North American professors every year who try to learn as much Lithuanian as they can.  Your entertaining podcasts keep my mind busy while I do housework and other boring jobs.

Thank you!

Geri Henderson, PhD
Chair, English Department
LCC International University
Klaipėda, Lithuania

Thanks Geri for the nice words and we’ll try to keep the episodes coming.  Okay, Agnė, your turn, take it away!!!

Hi, I am Agnė, and welcome back for some more Lithuanian phrases. If you see any angry Lithuanian, you could ask him: kodėl tu toks piktas kaip širšė? - Why are you as angry as a wasp?
Lithuanians have a lot of expressions with the word angry - piktas.

But let's start from the very beginning.
Here is a vocabulary for "angry expressions"

kodėl?
why?

toks
such, so

toks... kaip...
as... as...

piktas, pikta
angry

širšė
wasp

ragana
witch

velnias
devil

nebūti
to not be

nebūk
don't be

and here are the expressions:

piktas kaip širšė
pikta kaip širšė
piktas kaip velnias
pikta kaip ragana                       

Let's say them one time slowly:

piktas kaip širšė
as angry as a wasp
if you are addressing a male

pikta kaip širšė
as angry as a wasp
if you are addressing a female

piktas kaip velnias
as angry as the devil
commonly is used for a male, but it is not a mistake to say pikta kaip velnias, addressing a female

pikta kaip ragana
as angry as a witch
commonly is used for a female, but it is not a mistake if you wold use it for a male, saying piktas kaip ragana

Let's go over some examples:

kodėl jis toks piktas?
why is he so angry?

kodėl jis toks piktas kaip širšė?
why is he as angry as a wasp?

kodėl ji tokia pikta?
why is she so angry?

kodėl ji tokia pikta kaip ragana?
why is she as angry as a witch?

tavo tėtis piktas kaip širšė
your dad is as angry as a wasp

vairuotojas piktas kaip velnias
the driver is as angry as the devil

tavo draugė pikta kaip ragana
your girlfriend is as angry as a witch

nebūk piktas (or pikta) kaip ragana
don't be as angry as a witch

That's it for today, see you next time! Enjoy it and don't be angry :)

Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language.  Today we’re in the month of September which in Lithuanian is rugsėjis.

In the navy a submarine tender is a ship that supplies and supports submarines.  In 1961 when Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were still forceably part of the Soviet Union, Captain Jonas Pleškys sailed his submarine tender out of Klaipėda and into the Baltic Sea.  Soviet authorities had ordered the ship to travel to Tallinn, Estonia but Jonas sailed to Gotland, Sweden and defected to the west.  The Soviet Union convicted Ponas Jonas in absentia and his sentence was death by firing squad.  Jonas died in California in 1993 of old age.

His story is believed to be the basis for Tom Clancy’s book The Hunt for Red October.  In the book and in the movie submarine captain Marko Ramius is known as, “The Lithuanian.”  The submarine captain sails his ship to the west and defects.

Just an interesting bit of trivia; in the beginning of the book Captain Marko Ramius kills his KGB political officer.  The Soviet officer’s name?  Ivan Putin.  That’s funny. 

pradėkime, let’s get started

Now we’re going to study something I didn’t understand for a very long time.  Numbers that end in the number one.  For example, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 81, 91, 101, 11,391, 635,271, excluding 11.  Eleven is the only number that doesn’t follow this pattern.

Before we get to the meat of this episode, here are some nouns for you;

How do you say it in Lithuanian? 
Kaip pasakyti lietuviškai?

a shoe          
batas

the shoe       
batas

a table          
stalas

the table       
stalas

a glass          
taurė

the glass       
taurė

a chair          
kėdė

the chair       
kėdė

a song          
daina

the song       
daina

a pizza          
pica

the pizza       
pica

The interesting thing about 21, 31, 41, etcetera, when paired with a noun, for example, 21 days, 31 cities, or 41 books, the noun has a singular form.

prašom pakartoti…

21 days          
dvidešimt viena diena

31 colors       
trisdešimt viena spalva

41 glasses    
keturiasdešimt viena taurė

51 televisions
penkiasdešimt vienas televizorius

61 fruits        
šešiasdešimt vienas vaisius

Do you see what we’re getting at here?  If the number ends in a one, then the noun is singular.  The only  exception is eleven or vienuolika.  Eleven does not follow this rule. 

Prašom pakartoti…please repeat…

71 countries       
septyniasdešimt viena šalis

81 cities             
aštuoniasdešimt vienas miestas

91 shoes            
devyniasdešimt vienas batas

101 tables          
šimtas vienas stalas

121 chairs          
šimtas dvidešimt viena kėdė

131 objects        
šimtas trisdešimt vienas dalykas

141 pizzas          
šimtas keturiasdešimt viena pica

151 colors           
šimtas penkiasdešimt viena spalva

161 glasses         
šimtas šešiasdešimt viena taurė

171 televisions    
šimtas septyniasdešimt vienas televizorius

181 songs           
šimtas aštuoniasdešimt viena daina

191 countries      
šimtas devyniasdešimt viena šalis

201 cities           
du šimtai vienas miestas

221 shoes            
du šimtai dvidešimt vienas batas

231 objects         
du šimtai trisdešimt vienas dalykas

241 chairs          
du šimtai keturiasdešimt viena kėdė

261 songs          
du šimtai šešiasdešimt viena daina

351 tables          
trys šimtai penkiasdešimt vienas stalas

361 days             
trys šimtai šešiasdešimt viena diena

371 colors           
trys šimtai septyniasdešimt viena spalva

431 pizzas          
keturi šimtai trisdešimt viena pica

481 glasses        
keturi šimtai aštuoniasdešimt viena taurė

491 televisions    
keturi šimtai devyniasdešimt vienas televizorius

501 fruits           
penki šimtai vienas vaisius

521 countries     
penki šimtai dvidešimt viena šalis

631 cities           
šeši šimtai trisdešimt vienas miestas

641 shoes          
šeši šimtai keturiasdešimt vienas batas

751 days           
septyni šimtai penkiasdešimt viena diena

761 colors         
septyni šimtai šešiasdešimt viena spalva

871 glasses        
aštuoni šimtai septyniasdešimt viena taurė

981 televisions   
devyni šimtai aštuoniasdešimt vienas televizorius

1,001 fruits        
vienas tūkstantis vienas vaisius

1,221 shoes        
vienas tūkstantis du šimtai vienas batas

2,001 colors        
du tūkstančiai viena spalva

10,031 objects   
dešimt tūkstančių trisdešimt vienas dalykas

10,031 things     
dešimt tūkstančių trisdešimt vienas daiktas

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