locījums

Latvian

Etymology

From locīt (past stem: locīj-) (to bow, to bend, to inflect) + -ums. In the grammatical sense, this term was first used in 1850 by J. Neikens.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [lùotsîːjums]
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Noun

locījums m (1st declension)

  1. (grammar) case (inflected form of a word, used to indicate various syntactic and semantic relations)
    datīva locījumsdative case
    locījumu galotnescase endings
    latviešu valodā locījumi piemīt lietvārdiem, īpašības vārdiem, vietniekvārdiemin Latvian, nouns, adjectives and pronouns have cases

Declension

See also

References

  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), locīt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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