Noun: zirnis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | zirnis |
| Accusative | zirni |
| Genitive | zirņa |
| Dative | zirnim |
| Instrumental | zirni |
| Locative | zirnī |
| Vocative | zirni |
Plural
| Nominative | zirņi |
| Accusative | zirņus |
| Genitive | zirņu |
| Dative | zirņiem |
| Instrumental | zirņiem |
| Locative | zirņos |
| Vocative | zirņi |
Sample Sentences
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dārza zirnis (garden pea)
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lauka zirnis (field pea)
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sējas zirnis (sowing pea (Pisum sativum))
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zirņu pāksts (pea pod)
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lobīt zirņus (to shuck, shell peas (pea pods))
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kaltēt zirņus (to dry peas)
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pelēkie zirņi ar speķi (gray peas with bacon)
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zirņu zupa (pea soup)
Nouns inflected like zirnis
sapnis,
sainis,
skanis,
sniegputenis,
bārenis,
lentenis,
spēkonis,
zvīnis,
zirnis,
sūknis,
ukrainis,
spilvenis,
stundenis,
gavēnis,
ūdenstornis,
skaļrunis,
kustonis,
gubumākonis,
stulbenis,
līdzskanis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *žírˀnjas, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źírˀnan, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. In Eastern Baltic, this word narrowed its meaning from “grain” to only one kind of grain, “pea”.
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