valsts – Latvian noun declension

Noun: valsts
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	valsts
Accusative	valsti
Genitive	valsts
Dative	valstij
Instrumental	valsti
Locative	valstī
Vocative	valsts

Plural

Nominative	valstis
Accusative	valstis
Genitive	valstu
Dative	valstīm
Instrumental	valstīm
Locative	valstīs
Vocative	valstis

Sample Sentences

demokratiska, monarhiska valsts (democratic, monarchic state)
valsts vara (state power)
valsts teritorija (country (lit. state territory))
valsts galva (head of state)
valsts pārvalde (government (lit. state administration))
valsts iekšējās lietas (a country's internal affairs)
valsts iestāde (public (lit. state) authority)
valsts budžets (state budget)
valsts īpašums (state property)
valsts monopols (state monopoly)
valsts valoda (official (lit. state) language)
valsts sekretārs, kanclers (secretary, chancellor of state)
valsts drošība (state security)
Baltijas valstis (Baltic countries)
nepievienojušās valstis (developing countries)
Amerikas Savienotās Valstis (United States of America)
augu valsts (plant kingdom)
dzīvnieku valsts (animal kingdom)

Nouns inflected like valsts

Havaju zoss, žults, balss, takts, pirts, acs, ass, uts, vēsts, pilsētvalsts, cūkkūts, debess, maksts, cūku kūts, valsts, auss, kūts, zoss,

Etymology

1. From Proto-Balto-Slavic *walˀstís, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wolh₁dʰh₁-ti-s, from *h₂welh₁dʰh₁-, from *h₂welh₁- (“to rule”). Morphologically from valdīt (“to reign, to rule”) (*vald-tis > *valstis > valsts; compare dialectal form valdzs).
2. The original meaning was “power, domination”; by the 18th century, this had been changed to “parish, fief, administrative district”, with significant geographic variation well into the 19th century. Only in the 20th century did the current meaning become stable. Cognates include Lithuanian val̃sčius (“district, parish, township”) (< *vald-tius, dialectal val̃stis), valstýbė (“country, state”), Proto-Slavic *volstь (“possession”) from *volsti (“to reign, to rule”).