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locījums

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Latvian

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): [lùotsîːjums]
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Noun

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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

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See also

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References

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