Noun: paprika
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | paprika |
| Accusative | papriku |
| Genitive | paprikas |
| Dative | paprikai |
| Instrumental | papriku |
| Locative | paprikā |
| Vocative | paprika |
Plural
| Nominative | paprikas |
| Accusative | paprikas |
| Genitive | papriku |
| Dative | paprikām |
| Instrumental | paprikām |
| Locative | paprikās |
| Vocative | paprikas |
Sample Sentences
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paprikas augļi (fruits of the sweet pepper (plant))
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paprika dienvidos ir puskrūms, bet Latvijā to audzē kā viengadīgu augu (in the south, sweet pepper is a perennial bush (= plant), but in Latvia it is grown as an annual plant)
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paprikas dzimtene ir Amerikas kontinenta tropu rajoni (the native land of sweet peppers are the tropical regions of the American continent)
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gaļu sagriež gabaliņos, apcep taukvielā, liek katlā, pievieno papriku (cut the meat into small pieces, fry in a fat substance (= butter or margarine), put it in a pot (and) add paprika)
Nouns inflected like paprika
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
Via other European languages, borrowed from Hungarian paprika, itself from Serbo-Croatian páprika, from pȁpar, from Latin piper (“pepper”), whence also Latvian pipars (q.v.). See: Hungarian Nouns '
paprika', Latin Nouns '
piper', Latvian Nouns '
pipars'.
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