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 Juris Neikens in 1850.[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 locījums ― dative case
    locījumu galotnes ― case endings
    latviešu valodā locījumi piemīt lietvārdiem, īpašības vārdiem, vietniekvārdiem ― in 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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