Noun: sekunde
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | sekunde |
| Accusative | sekundi |
| Genitive | sekundes |
| Dative | sekundei |
| Instrumental | sekundi |
| Locative | sekundē |
| Vocative | sekunde |
Plural
| Nominative | sekundes |
| Accusative | sekundes |
| Genitive | sekunžu |
| Dative | sekundēm |
| Instrumental | sekundēm |
| Locative | sekundēs |
| Vocative | sekundes |
Sample Sentences
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minūtei ir sešdesmit sekundes (a minute has sixty seconds)
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tas ilga dažas sekundes (that lasted a few seconds)
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šis indikators mirgo reizi sekundē (this light flashes once per second)
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šī leņķa lielums ir viena sekunde (the size of this angle is one second (of arc))
Nouns inflected like sekunde
paparde,
sekunde,
desmitgade,
saspraude,
šķēde,
bilde,
klade,
pelde,
varde,
valde,
raude,
spīde,
sirde,
ziede,
šokolāde,
atbilde,
tūkstošgade,
dzemde,
metode,
iegāde, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Medieval Latin secunda, short for secunda pars minuta (“second diminished part (of the hour)”).
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