Noun: sudrabs
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | sudrabs |
| Accusative | sudrabu |
| Genitive | sudraba |
| Dative | sudrabam |
| Instrumental | sudrabu |
| Locative | sudrabā |
| Vocative | sudrab |
Plural
Sample Sentences
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tīrradņa sudrabs (virgin silver)
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sudraba rūda (silver ore)
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sudraba sakausējumi (silver alloys)
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sudraba nitrāts, hlorīds (silver nitrate, chloride)
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sudraba karote (silver spoon)
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sudraba medaļa (silver medal)
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sudraba kāzas (silver wedding (i.e., 20th anniversary))
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viņas balsij sudraba skaņa (her voice has a silver sound)
Nouns inflected like sudrabs
selēns,
pēkšņums,
valodīgums,
skandijs,
žiglums,
izbrīns,
vēsums,
paradoksālums,
vājums,
badmintons,
oglekļa dioksīds,
lourensijs,
darba lauks,
plānums,
baigums,
sāļums,
adrenalīns,
rēnijs,
rādijs,
brūnums, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From a late Proto-Indo-European root common to Balto-Slavic and Germanic for “silver”, not attested in other branches of Indo-European, likely borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate.
2. Cognates include Lithuanian sidãbras, dialectal sudãbras, archaic sidrabas (compare Latvian dialectal forms sudabrs, sidrabs), Old Prussian siraplis (accusative form sirablan), Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro) (Russian серебро́ (serebró)), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌱𐍂 (silubr), German Silber, English silver. See: Gothic Nouns '
𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌱𐍂', German Nouns '
Silber', English Nouns '
silver'.
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