telefons – Latvian noun declension

Noun: telefons
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Gender: Masculine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	telefons
Accusative	telefonu
Genitive	telefona
Dative	telefonam
Instrumental	telefonu
Locative	telefonā
Vocative	telefon

Plural

Nominative	telefoni
Accusative	telefonus
Genitive	telefonu
Dative	telefoniem
Instrumental	telefoniem
Locative	telefonos
Vocative	telefoni

Sample Sentences

elektromagnētiskais telefons (electromagnetic telephone)
galvas telefons (headphone (lit. head telephone))
telefona sakari (telephone connections)
telefona vadi, stieples (telephone wires, cables)
rūpnīcas iekšējais telefons (the factory's internal telephone (= interphone))
telefona tīkls (telephone network)
telefona abonents (telephone subscriber)
telefona centrāle (telephone exchange)
telefona saruna (telephone conversation)
mūsu šodienas dzīve bez telefona ir grūti pat iedomāties (it is difficult to even imagine our life today without the telephone)
no nama uz namu stiepjas elektriskās līnijas un telefona kabeļi (from house to house)
telefona klausule (telephone receiver)
runāt, zvanīt pa telefonu (to talk, to call by phone)
atkal zvanīja telefons; Birgitai mājās esot, Arnolds pie aparāta izvairījās iet (again the telephone rang; Birgita being home, Arnolds avoided picking it up (lit. going to the telephone set))
“Nikolajs smagi saslimis”, viņa teica; “mazliet pagaidi un piezvani otrreiz, es aiznesīšu telefonu otrā istabā pie viņa gultas” (“Nikolajs is very sick,” she said; “wait a little and call again, I will take the telephone into the other room to his bed”)
telefona grāmatu, telefonu grāmatu (phone book (list of the telephone numbers of the subscribers of a telephone network))
es pārrakstu telefonus Nākamgada kalendārā (I am copying the telephone (numbers) to next year's calendar)
Dinas tēvs metas istabā pie sava rakstāmgalda, pagrābj telefonu grāmata un trīcošiem pirkstiem šķir lapas (Dina's father threw himself into the room, (went) to his desk, grabbed the phone book and with trembling fingers separated its pages)

Nouns inflected like telefons

gredzens, greznums, sniegs, salāts, sakars, diftongs, smaids, sonets, sivēns, dienests, piecnieks, skudrs, skvērs, skaits, pacients, vilciens, realizējums, skatiens, izskats, spoguļattēls, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

A borrowing, via other European languages, ultimately a from French téléphone, a word coined in the 1830s from two Ancient Greek elements, τῆλε (têle, “afar”) and φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”). See: French Nouns 'téléphone'.