septiņi
Appearance
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a previous undeclinable *septin (by analogy assimilated to the class of nouns in -iņš, plural -iņi), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *septín, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”). Cognates include Lithuanian septynì, Old Prussian sep(t)mas (“seventh”), Proto-Slavic *sedmъ (“seventh”), replacing an older Proto-Slavic *setь (Old Church Slavonic седмь (sedmĭ), Russian семь (semʹ), Belarusian сем (sjem), Ukrainian сім (sim), Bulgarian се́дем (sédem), Czech sedm, Polish siedem), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌱𐌿𐌽 (sibun), Old High German sibun, Old English seofon, German sieben, English seven, Hittite [script needed] (šiptam), Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá), Latin septem.[1]
Pronunciation
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Cardinal : septiņi Ordinal : septītais Multiplier : septiņreiz Nominal : septiņnieks Fractional : septītdaļa | ||
Latvian Wikipedia article on 7 (skaitlis) |
Numeral
[edit]septiņi
- seven (the cipher, the cardinal number seven)
- trīs un četri ir septiņi ― three plus four is seven
- divreiz septiņi ir četrpadsmit ― two times seven is fourteen
- reizināt ar septiņi ― to multiply by seven
- septiņi ir laimes skaitlis ― seven is a happy (= lucky, fortunate) number
- pie četriem pielikt septiņus ― to add seven to four
- seven (an amount equal to seven)
- septiņi metri auduma ― seven meters of fabric
- pagaidīt septiņas minūtes ― to wait for seven minutes
- septiņi gadi, septiņus gadus vecs bērns ― a seven-year-old child
- septiņu stundu darbadiena ― a seven-hour working day
- seven o'clock (a moment in time; seven hours after midnight, or after noon)
- pulkstenis ir septiņi ― it is seven o'clock
- septiņos no rīta ― at seven o'clock in the morning
- koncerts sākas septiņos vakarā ― the concert begins at seven o'clock at night
Declension
[edit]declension of septiņi
masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | septiņi | septiņas |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | septiņus | septiņas |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | septiņu | septiņu |
dative (datīvs) | septiņiem | septiņām |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | septiņiem | septiņām |
locative (lokatīvs) | septiņos | septiņās |
vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — |
Coordinate terms
[edit]Latvian cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “septiņi”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN