Noun: tāfele
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | tāfele |
| Accusative | tāfeli |
| Genitive | tāfeles |
| Dative | tāfelei |
| Instrumental | tāfeli |
| Locative | tāfelē |
| Vocative | tāfele |
Plural
| Nominative | tāfeles |
| Accusative | tāfeles |
| Genitive | tāfeļu |
| Dative | tāfelēm |
| Instrumental | tāfelēm |
| Locative | tāfelēs |
| Vocative | tāfeles |
Sample Sentences
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skolas tāfele (school blackboard)
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izsaukt pie tāfeles (to call (a student) to the blackboard)
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iet pie tāfeles (to go to the blackboard)
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rakstīt uz tāfeles (to write on the blackboard)
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noslaucīt tāfeli (to erase, to wipe the blackboard (clean))
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pie tāfeles stāvēja Adatiņš un atbildēja latviešu valodu (Adatiņš stood at the blackboard and answered/recited the Latvian language (lesson))
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šokolādes tāfele (chocolate bar)
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Ingeborgas dzimšanas dienas rītā manā “Varoņa” mugursomā blakus mācību līdzekļiem tika ievietota zīdpapīrā ietīta šokolādes “Skaistā Latvija” tāfele; tā bija cienīga dāvana (in the morning of Ingeborga's birthday, a bar of “Skaistā Latvija” (= “Beautiful Latvia”) chocolate, wrapped in silk paper, was placed in my backpack next to the schoolbooks; that was a worthy gift)
Nouns inflected like tāfele
mēslvabole,
vēzele,
metropole,
viesmīle,
pasaule,
smalkvīle,
normāle,
centrāle,
dzeloņu stieple,
datorspēle,
dvēsele,
klausule,
strēmele,
akmeņogle,
skaistule,
ābele,
ēvele,
rupjvīle,
šķēle,
dzeloņstieple, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from German Tafel (“blackboard”), itself from Middle Low German tavel, tavele, from Old High German tavala, borrowed from Latin tabula (“plank, board; tablet”). The first occurrences are in 19th-century Latvian literature. (J. Endzelīns preferred the variant tāpele, since it was closer to the original Latin source.) See: German Nouns '
Tafel', Latin Nouns '
tabula'.
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