aploksne – Latvian noun declension

Noun: aploksne
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	aploksne
Accusative	aploksni
Genitive	aploksnes
Dative	aploksnei
Instrumental	aploksni
Locative	aploksnē
Vocative	aploksne

Plural

Nominative	aploksnes
Accusative	aploksnes
Genitive	aplokšņu
Dative	aploksnēm
Instrumental	aploksnēm
Locative	aploksnēs
Vocative	aploksnes

Sample Sentences

aizlīmēt aploksni (to seal the envelope)
atplēst aploksni (to rip open the envelope)
aizzīmogota aploksne (sealed envelope (with a seal))
aploksne ar marku (envelope with a stamp)
uzrakstīt uz aploksnes adresi (to write the address on the envelope)
uz galda stāvēja divas aploksnes ar simt divdesmit kronām katrā (on the table there were two envelopes, each with 120 kronas)
viņš atrada uz sava galda vēstuli... tā kā mājās pasts nāca reti, viņš ar sevišķu interesi aplūkoja zilgano aploksni (he found a letter on his table... since the mail came only rarely home, he looked with particular interest at the blue envelope)

Nouns inflected like aploksne

plāksne, aploksne, varavīksne, piedurksne, augsne, koksne, krāsne,

Etymology

Derived from the present stem aplok- of aplocīt (“to wrap around”), itself from ap- + locīt (“to fold, to bend”), + -ne, with an intermediate epenthetic s. The word was coined at the end of the 19th century but only became popular in the 20th century, replacing the earlier borrowing kuverts.