Noun: mandarīns
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | mandarīns |
| Accusative | mandarīnu |
| Genitive | mandarīna |
| Dative | mandarīnam |
| Instrumental | mandarīnu |
| Locative | mandarīnā |
| Vocative | mandarīn |
Plural
| Nominative | mandarīni |
| Accusative | mandarīnus |
| Genitive | mandarīnu |
| Dative | mandarīniem |
| Instrumental | mandarīniem |
| Locative | mandarīnos |
| Vocative | mandarīni |
Sample Sentences
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mandarīnu sula (tangerine juice)
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mandarīna miza (tangerine peel, skin)
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mandarīns ir ļoti auglīgs (the tangerine is a very fruitful (tree))
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tā koka augļi jau zēniem bija pazīstami: tie bija mandarīni (those tree fruits were already known to the boys: they were tangerines)
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ķīniešu ieradumu aizstāvis eiropeiski izglītots Ķīnas mandarīns misters Vū ir savdabīgs un diezgan interesants lugas tēls (Mister Woo, a defender of Chinese traditions, a Chinese mandarin educated as a European, is a unique and quite interesting character)
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mandarīnu valoda ((standard) Mandarine Chinese (language))
Nouns inflected like mandarīns
gredzens,
greznums,
sniegs,
salāts,
sakars,
diftongs,
smaids,
sonets,
sivēns,
dienests,
piecnieks,
skudrs,
skvērs,
skaits,
pacients,
vilciens,
realizējums,
skatiens,
izskats,
spoguļattēls, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Perhaps via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Dutch mandarijn or from Portuguese mandarim, both borrowings from Malay menteri, manteri, from Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), from मन्त्र (mantra, “counsel, maxim, mantra”) and -इन् (-in, “an agent suffix”). The fruit meaning (“tangerine”) apparently derives from the yellow collor of a mandarin's costume. See: Dutch Nouns '
mandarijn', Portuguese Nouns '
mandarim'.
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