pļāpa

See also: pļāpā

Latvian

Etymology

From the stem of pļāpāt (q.v.), made into an ambigenous (masculine and/or feminine) fourth declension noun.

Noun

pļāpa m or f (4th declension)

1. chatty person, chatterbox

   pļāpa un muļķis dzīvē allaž iet blakām ― the chatterbox and the fool often go side by side in life

   Dartfordā notikušajās pļāpu sacensībās kāds Šihins neaizvēra muti 133 stundas! ― in a tournament of chatty people that happened in Dartford a certain Šihins did not close (his) mouth (for) 133 hours!

Usage notes

The term pļāpa is ambigenous. It is masculine when it refers to males and feminine when it refers to females. It is, however, always declined as a feminine noun, with the exception of its dative singular form, which is pļāpam when it refers to a male and pļāpai when it refers to a female.

Declension

Declension of pļāpa (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pļāpa	pļāpas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	pļāpu	pļāpas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	pļāpas	pļāpu
dative (datīvs)	pļāpam, pļāpai	pļāpām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	pļāpu	pļāpām
locative (lokatīvs)	pļāpā	pļāpās
vocative (vokatīvs)	pļāpa	pļāpas

Related terms

• pļāpas
• pļāpāt
• pļāpība
• pļāpīgs, pļāpīgums