Noun: palodze
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | palodze |
| Accusative | palodzi |
| Genitive | palodzes |
| Dative | palodzei |
| Instrumental | palodzi |
| Locative | palodzē |
| Vocative | palodze |
Plural
| Nominative | palodzes |
| Accusative | palodzes |
| Genitive | palodžu |
| Dative | palodzēm |
| Instrumental | palodzēm |
| Locative | palodzēs |
| Vocative | palodzes |
Sample Sentences
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kaķis palodzē (a cat on the window sill)
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plata palodze (wide window sill)
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novietot puķu podus uz palodzes (to place the flower pots on the window sill)
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Alsters sēž uz palodzes, plaukstā sažņaudzis aizkara malu, un skatās lejā (Alsters sits on the window sill, his hands clutching the curtain edge, and looks down)
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lietus pirksti vienmuļi grabināja pret rūti un pret skārda palodzi (the rain's fingers were monotonously rattling against the panes and against the tin window sill)
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suns atsēdsā palodzē zem krūma un diedelēja vakariņas (the dog sat under a bush in the area under the window and begged for his dinner)
Nouns inflected like palodze
slodze,
šimpanze,
palodze,
ēdienreize,
sintēze,
lielkņaze,
nabadze,
dzeguze,
neiroze,
kinetoze,
prognoze,
aizsardze,
pieredze,
avīze,
glāze,
milze,
maize,
jūdze,
blūze,
bērze, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Apparently a variant of paloda (“lintel”) (q.v.), ultimately from the same source as the verb lodāt (“to crawl, to creep”), presumably because, since doors were originally low, one had to "crawl" under their lintels to enter the house.
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