Noun: dakša
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | dakša |
| Accusative | dakšu |
| Genitive | dakšas |
| Dative | dakšai |
| Instrumental | dakšu |
| Locative | dakšā |
| Vocative | dakša |
Plural
| Nominative | dakšas |
| Accusative | dakšas |
| Genitive | dakšu |
| Dative | dakšām |
| Instrumental | dakšām |
| Locative | dakšās |
| Vocative | dakšas |
Sample Sentences
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dakšu kāts (fork shaft)
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uzdurt salmu klēpi uz dakšām (to stick a fork into the straw)
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izcelt kartupeļus ar dakšām (to dig out potatoes with a fork)
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divzaru, trīszaru, četrzaru dakšas (two-, three-, four-pronged fork)
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divžuburu, trīsžuburu, četržuburu dakšas (two-, three-, four-pronged fork)
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siena, mēslu, dārza, kartupeļu dakšas (hay, manure, garden, potato fork)
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velosipēda dakša (bicycle fork)
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motocikla priekšējā dakša (front motorcycle fork)
Nouns inflected like dakša
tulkošana,
secība,
sezona,
saruna,
sajūta,
samaņa,
smarža,
skudra,
sklēra,
muļķība,
pirmdiena,
bebrāda,
skaudība,
kaklarota,
psihiatrija,
vīksna,
vīnoga,
izmaksa,
sešpaka,
melnaugļu aronija, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *daš-, with a suffix -kā and š-k metathesis (compare also dialectal daška; there are also dialectal forms like dasti with a suffix -to instead of -kā), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ (“to pluck, sever, split”). Cognates include Norwegian tagge, German Zacke (“spike”), Middle Low German tagge, Dutch tak (“branch”), English tack. See: German Nouns '
Zacke', Dutch Nouns '
tak', English Nouns '
tack'.
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