islandisks
See also: īslandisks
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Islande (“Iceland”) + -isks.
Adjective
[edit]islandisks (definite islandiskais, comparative islandiskāks, superlative visislandiskākais, adverb islandiski)
- Icelandic (relating to the Icelandic language; relating to the Icelandic people or to Iceland)
- kaut kas ļoti islandisks ― something very Icelandic
- Islandē, lai naturalizētos, jāpieņem islandisks vārds un uzvārds ― In Iceland, in order to be naturalized, one has to take an Icelandic first and last name
Usage notes
[edit]- English “Dutch” as an attributive adjective usually corresponds in Latvian to nīderlandiešu, the genitive plural form of nīderlandietis. The adjective nīderlandisks is commonly used as a predicate (“this is Dutch”), or in its adverbial form nīderlandiski.
- The forms with a long ī (Īslande and derived terms, like īslandietis, īslandisks, etc.) have been recently (in 2007) proposed as correct, but the forms with a short i (Islande, islandietis, islandisks, etc.) are still more frequently used.
Declension
[edit]indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of islandisks
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
| nominative (nominatīvs) | islandisks | islandiski | islandiska | islandiskas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | islandiska | islandisku | islandiskas | islandisku | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | islandiskam | islandiskiem | islandiskai | islandiskām | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | islandisku | islandiskus | islandisku | islandiskas | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | islandisku | islandiskiem | islandisku | islandiskām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | islandiskā | islandiskos | islandiskā | islandiskās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||