Noun: kāposti
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
Plural
| Nominative | kāposti |
| Accusative | kāpostus |
| Genitive | kāpostu |
| Dative | kāpostiem |
| Instrumental | kāpostiem |
| Locative | kāpostos |
| Vocative | kāposti |
Sample Sentences
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audzēt kāpostus (to grow cabbage)
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kāpostu galviņa, kāpostgalviņa (head of cabbage)
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vārīt kāpostus (to boil cabbage)
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kāpostu pīrāgs (cabbage pie)
Nouns inflected like kāposti
dienvidi,
saulgrieži,
putekšņi,
ziemeļi,
kūts mēsli,
griesti,
minerālmēsli,
kūtsmēsli,
austrumi,
īsviļņi,
mikroviļņi,
kāposti,
dubļi,
mieži,
milti,
murgi,
tauki,
mēsli,
kaļķi,
pelni, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old East Slavic капуста (kapusta) (cf. Russian капу́ста (kapústa)), itself a borrowing based on the merging of two Latin words, caputium (“head of cabbage”) and compos(i)ta (“compound vegetables”). This word must have been borrowed before the 13th century, when Old East Slavic у was still pronounced as o. Its first occurrence is in 16th-century dictionaries.
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