slepkava – Latvian noun declension

Noun: slepkava
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine, Feminine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	slepkava
Accusative	slepkavu
Genitive	slepkavas
Dative	slepkavam; slepkavai
Instrumental	slepkavu
Locative	slepkavā
Vocative	slepkava

Plural

Nominative	slepkavas
Accusative	slepkavas
Genitive	slepkavu
Dative	slepkavām
Instrumental	slepkavām
Locative	slepkavās
Vocative	slepkavas

Sample Sentences

pēc nožņaugšanas slepkava atstājis līķi turpat ratos (after strangulation the murderer left a dead body right there, in the horse-drawn carriage)
redzot, ka esesietis nošauj cilvēku no koncentrācijas nometnes, kautrīgais, bērnišķīgais Vīze naidā metas uz slepkavu (seeing that the SS's shot people from the concentration camp, the shy, childish Vīze in hatred threw himself on the murderer)

Nouns inflected like slepkava

jūras lauva, aizmārša, gnīda, lauva, aba, pļāpa, slepkava, nejēga,

Etymology

An old compound, from the stem of slepens (“secret”) or slepus (“secretly, stealthily”), and the stem of kaut (“to slaughter, to kill in battle”), nominalized in the sense of 'slaughterer', 'killer'.