tauta – Latvian noun declension

Latvian noun forms of tauta

Noun: tauta
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine Declension:

Singular

Nominativetauta
Accusativetautu
Genitivetautas
Dativetautai
Instrumentaltautu
Locativetautā
Vocativetauta

Plural

Nominativetautas
Accusativetautas
Genitivetautu
Dativetautām
Instrumentaltautām
Locativetautās
Vocativetautas

Sample Sentences

  • latviešu tauta (the Latvian people, nation)
  • lietuviešu tauta (the Lithuanian people, nation)
  • vācu tauta (the German people, nation)
  • tautas izcelšanās (the origin, ethnogenesis of a nation)
  • tautas vēsture (people's, national history)
  • tautu draudzība (friendship among nations)
  • kultūras tauta (cultured, cultivated nation)
  • tautas gars (national spirit (= cultural, spiritual, psychological specificity))
  • tautas daiļrade (folk, national creation, art)
  • tautas māksla (folk, popular art)
  • tautas teikas (folk legends)
  • tautas daiļamatniecība (folk craft)
  • tautas mūzika, dejas (folk music, dances)
  • tautas dziesma (folk song, verse)
  • tautas ticējumi (folk beliefs)
  • tautas ēdieni (popular, ethnic food)
  • tautas tērps (folk, ethnic costume)
  • tautas eposs (folk epic)
  • tautas medicīna, ārstniecība (folk medicine)
  • Latvijas tauta (the people of Latvia)
  • tautas skaitīšana (census (lit. people counting))
  • tautas izglītības sistēma (popular education system)
  • tautas fronte (popular front)
  • mašīnā tagad tautas ir vairāk, visiem sēdvietu nepietiek (there are more people in the car now, there won't be enough sitting space for all)
  • viņš gaida, kad sanāks vairāk tautas (he waited for (the time) when more people would come)
  • tauta runā, ka tu institūtā tikpat kā neesot redzēts (people are saying that it's as if you haven't been seen at the institute (= that you haven't been there often enough))
  • zvejnieki ir trūcīga tauta (fishermen are a poor people)
  • mēs, mākslinieki, esam nelaimīga tauta (we, the artists, are an unhappy people)
  • bērniem, bērniem vajag rakstīt! tā ir vispateicīgākā tauta (the children, the children must write! they are (lit. that is) the most promising, gratifying people)
  • kaķi vispār ir tāda tauta, no kuras nezini, ko kurā brīdī sagaidīsi (cats in general are such a people, from which you don't know what and when to expect)
  • tautu meita ((lit. daughter of the people) young woman from another region or family group)
  • tautu dēls ((lit. son of the people) young man from another region or family group)

Etymology

1. From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tawtā-, from Proto-Indo-European *towtā, an o-grade form of *tewtā-, *tewtéh₂ (“throng, multitude; people; land”), from the stem *tew- (“to swell”).
2. This word had several meanings in its history, often still found in folk tales: “(group of) foreigners,” “strangers,” “enemy tribe,” etc. (Compare Proto-Slavic *ťȗďь). In the 17th century, ļaudis, not tauta, was used in the sense of “people, nation.” In translations of German texts, (non-native) translators often used tauta to mean also “tribe,” “nation,” “(social) group” (compare German Geschlecht, Gattung), even “(animal or vegetal) species.” In the 19th century, the range of uses was narrowed, especially in the 1850s and 1860s with the first Latvian National Awakening, where the word tauta became associated with the idea of “nation” and was first used to refer to the Latvian people. It then stabilized with its current (political-ethnographic) meaning. Cognates include Lithuanian tautà, Sudovian taud (from *tauta), Old Prussian tauto (“land”), Proto-Germanic *þeudō (Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰 (þiuda), Old English þeod, Old High German diot, German deutsch, from *þiudiskaz), Old Irish túath (“people, tribe”), Oscan touto (“country, citizens, community”). See: German Nouns 'Geschlecht', Gothic Nouns '𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰', Old English Nouns 'þeod'.

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