Noun: latvietis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | latvietis |
| Accusative | latvieti |
| Genitive | latvieša |
| Dative | latvietim |
| Instrumental | latvieti |
| Locative | latvietī |
| Vocative | latvieti |
Plural
| Nominative | latvieši |
| Accusative | latviešus |
| Genitive | latviešu |
| Dative | latviešiem |
| Instrumental | latviešiem |
| Locative | latviešos |
| Vocative | latvieši |
Sample Sentences
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latviešu valoda (the Latvian language)
Nouns inflected like latvietis
vilnītis,
īslandietis,
holandietis,
vīrietis,
lihtenšteinietis,
irānietis,
latvietis,
tūkstotis,
kiprietis,
irākietis,
kambodžietis,
šampanietis,
beļģietis,
vācietis,
islandietis,
libānietis,
kosovietis,
cepetis,
taizemietis,
bosnietis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From latvis (“Latvian”) + -ietis. This term had in principle replaced latvis as the autodenomication of the Latvians already in the 19th century, but the latter was reintroduced via poetry and continues to exist as a poetic term.
Translations