apātija
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Via some other European language, ultimately borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apátheia, “impassibility”, “insensibility”, “freedom from emotion”), from ἀπαθής (apathḗs, “not suffering or having suffered”, “without experience of”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + πάθος (páthos, “anything that befalls one”, “incident”, “emotion”, “passion”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]apātija f (4th declension)
- apathy (mental condition characterized by lack of will, activity, interest; indifference)
- apātijas stāvoklis ― state of apathy
- apātijas pārņēmts cilvēks ― a person taken by apathy
- viņas skatiens pauda nogurumu un apātiju ― her look expressed fatigue and apathy
- Vītols juta, ka sirdi kā drēgnums apskauj drūma apātija; negribējās neko izdomāt līdz galam ― Vītols felt that bleak apathy embraced (his) heart like cold weather; he didn't feel like figuring out anything
- es iegrimu apātijā; jo vairāk atplauka daba un vasarīgāks kļuva gaiss, jo melnāka man šķita nākotne ― I fell into apathy; the more nature blossomed, the more it became summer, the blacker the future seemed to me
Declension
[edit]Declension of apātija (4th declension)
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīvs) | apātija | — |
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | apātiju | — |
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | apātijas | — |
| dative (datīvs) | apātijai | — |
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | apātiju | — |
| locative (lokatīvs) | apātijā | — |
| vocative (vokatīvs) | apātija | — |