Noun: joks
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | joks |
| Accusative | joku |
| Genitive | joka |
| Dative | jokam |
| Instrumental | joku |
| Locative | jokā |
| Vocative | jok |
Plural
| Nominative | joki |
| Accusative | jokus |
| Genitive | joku |
| Dative | jokiem |
| Instrumental | jokiem |
| Locative | jokos |
| Vocative | joki |
Sample Sentences
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asprātīgi, muļķīgi, sekli joki (witty, stupid, shallow jokes)
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stāstīt jokus (to tell jokes)
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tas tik bija joks! (this was such a joke!)
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joku stāsts (humorous story)
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joka pēc, joka dēļ (just for fun)
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humoram jāieņem liela vieta cilvēka dzīvē... bez joka, bez smiekliem nevar dzīvot! (humor must take an important part in human life... without joke(s), without laughs one cannot live!)
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pa jokam (jokingly, not seriously (lit. by joke))
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nav (nekāds) joks (this is no joke)
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nav joka lieta (this is no joke)
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bez jokiem (no joke (= this is serious))
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nebaidies, tas bija tikai joks (don't be afraid, that was only a joke)
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netici viņam, tie bija tikai muļķīgi joki (don't believe him, these were just stupid jokes)
Nouns inflected like joks
gredzens,
greznums,
sniegs,
salāts,
sakars,
diftongs,
smaids,
sonets,
sivēns,
dienests,
piecnieks,
skudrs,
skvērs,
skaits,
pacients,
vilciens,
realizējums,
skatiens,
izskats,
spoguļattēls, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *yuok-, from Proto-Indo-European *yōk-, the o-grade of *yek- (“to speak”) (whence also Sanskrit याचति (yā́cati, “to ask, to beg”) < (“to say solemnly”)). A minority opinion is that joks is a borrowing from Latin iocus, via a Germanic language. The term is attested in 17th-century dictionaries, where smiekli (“laugh”) is a synonym; these terms became semantically differentiatiated by the mid-19th century, when the meaning of smiekli was broadened. Cognates include Lithuanian juõkas (“laugh, laughter; joke, joking; jesting, fun”), Latin iocus (“joke, jest”). See: Latin Nouns '
iocus', Latin Nouns '
iocus'.
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