interesants
Appearance
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A borrowing, ultimately from the present participle of Latin interesse (“to concern; to make a difference”), probably via other European language (e.g., German interessant, or French intéressant).
Adjective
[edit]interesants (definite interesantais, comparative interesantāks, superlative visinteresantākais, adverb interesanti)
- interesting (that which causes interest)
- interesants stāsts, referāts ― interesting story, report
- interesanta saruna ― interesting conversation
- interesanti cilvēki ― interesting people
- kur vien man gadījās nokļūt, visattālākajās pasaules malās, visur atradu priekšā labus un interesantus ļaudis ― wherever I happened to go, (even) to the most distant corners of the world, everywhere I found good and interesting people
- visinteresantākā bija dzīvojamā māja; tas bija īsts arhitektūras brīnums ― the most interesting was the residential building; it was a true architectural marvel
- saistošs stāstījums par interesantu notikumu aizvien spēj saistīt klausītāju uzmanību ― adding an interesting event (= anecdote) to the presentation, one succeeds in holding the attention of the audience
Declension
[edit]masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||
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singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
nominative | interesants | interesanti | interesanta | interesantas | |
genitive | interesanta | interesantu | interesantas | interesantu | |
dative | interesantam | interesantiem | interesantai | interesantām | |
accusative | interesantu | interesantus | interesantu | interesantas | |
instrumental | interesantu | interesantiem | interesantu | interesantām | |
locative | interesantā | interesantos | interesantā | interesantās | |
vocative | — | — | — | — |