Noun: varde
Hyphenation:
Gender:
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | varde |
| Accusative | vardi |
| Genitive | vardes |
| Dative | vardei |
| Instrumental | vardi |
| Locative | vardē |
| Vocative | varde |
Plural
| Nominative | vardes |
| Accusative | vardes |
| Genitive | varžu |
| Dative | vardēm |
| Instrumental | vardēm |
| Locative | vardēs |
| Vocative | vardes |
Sample Sentences
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zaļā varde (green frog)
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ezera varde (lake frog)
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purva varde (marsh frog)
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varžu kurkuļi (frog tadpoles)
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dīķī kurkst vardes (frogs croak in the pond)
Nouns inflected like varde
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 Proto-Baltic *war-, *wer- with an extra -de, from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁-, a stem used to form words that imitate human and animal voices (compare vārds (“word, name”)). Cognates include Lithuanian varlė̃ (with a different suffix). A different hypothesis derives it from Proto-Indo-European *word-, which also yielded with Old Armenian գորտ (gort).
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