Noun: rats
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | rats |
| Accusative | ratu |
| Genitive | rata |
| Dative | ratam |
| Instrumental | ratu |
| Locative | ratā |
| Vocative | rat |
Plural
| Nominative | rati |
| Accusative | ratus |
| Genitive | ratu |
| Dative | ratiem |
| Instrumental | ratiem |
| Locative | ratos |
| Vocative | rati |
Sample Sentences
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stūres rats (steering wheel)
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dzirnavu rats (millwheel)
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spara rats, spararats (flywheel)
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ķēdes pārvada rats (chain wheel)
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laimes rats (the wheel of fortune)
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pagriezt atpakaļ, apturēt vēstures ratu (to turn back, to stop the wheel of history)
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jūgt zirgu ratos (to harness a horse to a cart)
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vienjūga, divjūga rati (a one-, a two-horse cart or carriage)
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smagie rati (heavy cart)
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rati ar gumijas riteņiem (a cart with rubber wheels)
Nouns inflected like rats
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 Proto-Indo-European *ret(h), *rot(h). Cognates include Lithuanian rãtas (“wheel”), Sanskrit रथ (ratha, “chariot”), Old High German rad (“wheel”) (German Rad (“wheel”)), Latin rota (“wheel”) (Portuguese roda, Spanish rueda, Italian ruota, Romanian roată, French roue), Albanian rreth (“hoop, circle, wheel rim”). See: German Nouns '
Rad', Latin Nouns '
rota', Portuguese Nouns '
roda', Spanish Nouns '
rueda', Italian Nouns '
ruota', Romanian Nouns '
roată', French Nouns '
roue'.
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