Noun: rīts
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Singular
| Nominative | rīts |
| Accusative | rītu |
| Genitive | rīta |
| Dative | rītam |
| Instrumental | rītu |
| Locative | rītā |
| Vocative | rīt |
Plural
| Nominative | rīti |
| Accusative | rītus |
| Genitive | rītu |
| Dative | rītiem |
| Instrumental | rītiem |
| Locative | rītos |
| Vocative | rīti |
Sample Sentences
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rīta debesis (morning sky)
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tumšs rīts (dark morning)
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agrs rīts (early morning)
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rīta krēsla (morning twilight)
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rīta rasa (morning dew)
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rīta cēliens (morning period, time)
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rīta zvaigzne (morning star (= Venus))
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no rīta līdz vakaram (from morning till night)
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uz rīta pusi ((going) toward morning)
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rīta putns (morning bird (= a person who wakes up early))
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rīta tualete (morning washing (i.e., the act washing and brushing one's teeth in the morning))
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silts, mīlīgs rīts ausa augusta sākumā... saule vēl nebija lēkusi, jo gaismiņa tikko sāka svīst (a warm, gentle morning dawned in early August... the sun had not yet risen, because the (early) light had just begun to appear)
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tonakt man slikti nāca miegs... aizmigu tikai pret rīta pusi (that night I had trouble sleeping... I fell asleep only (when it was going) towards morning)
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rīta kurpes, rītakurpes (slippers (lit. morning shoes))
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rīta svārki, rītasvārki (gown, bathrobe (lit. morning coat))
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Edīte izraušas no gultas un apvilka rīta svārkus (Edīte scrambled out of bed and put on her dressing gown)
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dzīves rīts (the morning (= first phase) of life)
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jaunība ir dzīves rīts; tas ir laiks, kad cilvēks veidojas kā personība (youth is the morning of life; that is the time when someone forms him/herself as a person)
Nouns inflected like rīts
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
From the same stem as the verb ritēt (“to roll; to flow; to go by”): Proto-Baltic *rīt-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to flow”) with an extra -t (from the same stem, with an extra -s instead, Old English risan, English rise; from the meaning “to flow,” Latin rīvus “river”). The meaning probably went from “to flow, to pass” to “morning” via the idea of the time when the day starts to flow, to pass (or maybe the idea of the sun beginning to pass, to go by, to “flow”, on the sky). Cognates include Lithuanian rýtas. See: Old English Nouns '
risan', English Nouns '
rise', Latin Nouns '
rīvus'.
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