Noun: kaķis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | kaķis |
| Accusative | kaķi |
| Genitive | kaķa |
| Dative | kaķim |
| Instrumental | kaķi |
| Locative | kaķī |
| Vocative | kaķi |
Plural
| Nominative | kaķi |
| Accusative | kaķus |
| Genitive | kaķu |
| Dative | kaķiem |
| Instrumental | kaķiem |
| Locative | kaķos |
| Vocative | kaķi |
Sample Sentences
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melns kaķis (black cat)
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kaķis murrā (the cat purrs)
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kaķis noķēris peli (the cat caught a mouse)
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veikls kā kaķis (neat as a cat)
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acis kā kaķim (eyes like a cat's (= good vision))
Nouns inflected like kaķis
sarķis,
skuķis,
ķauķis,
septembris,
bumbieris,
trijstūris,
pulveris,
zeņķis,
mūziķis,
pareģis,
dziedzeris,
smiltsērkšķis,
fonētiķis,
gaisakuģis,
rūķītis,
pērtiķis,
sliņķis,
gramatiķis,
finieris,
āzenis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Old word, which spread together with the animal millennia ago, apparently ultimately of Afroasiatic origin, later borrowed into Proto-Indo-European.
2. The Latvian term was apparently influenced by the Germanic forms: kaķis < *katis, from feminine *kate (cf. dialectal katene (“kitten”)), at first in Couronian dialects, later in other dialects and in the standard language.
3. Cognates include Lithuanian katė̃, Old Prussian catto ([kato]), Russian кот (kot), Middle High German, Middle Dutch katte, German Katze, English cat, Latin cattus, catta. See: Russian Nouns '
кот', German Nouns '
Katze', English Nouns '
cat', Latin Nouns '
cattus'.
Verbs referencing "kaķis"
English Nouns
cat.
Translations