Noun: tētis
Hyphenation:
Gender:
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | tētis |
| Accusative | tēti |
| Genitive | tēta |
| Dative | tētim |
| Instrumental | tēti |
| Locative | tētī |
| Vocative | tēti |
Plural
| Nominative | tēti |
| Accusative | tētus |
| Genitive | tētu |
| Dative | tētiem |
| Instrumental | tētiem |
| Locative | tētos |
| Vocative | tēti |
Sample Sentences
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un tad es katru dienu būšu pie tevis, tēt! (and then every day I'll be with you, dad!)
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tagad rakstniecei 71 gads, tēvs miris, kad viņai bija trīspadsmit gadi, bet viņa mums stāsta par savu tēti, it kā tas vakar būtu aizgājis (the writer is now 71, (her) father died when she was 13, but she told us about her dad as if he had gone yesterday)
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sirms tētis (a gray-haired old man)
Nouns inflected like tētis
sarķis,
skuķis,
ķauķis,
septembris,
bumbieris,
trijstūris,
pulveris,
zeņķis,
mūziķis,
pareģis,
dziedzeris,
smiltsērkšķis,
fonētiķis,
gaisakuģis,
rūķītis,
pērtiķis,
sliņķis,
gramatiķis,
finieris,
āzenis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *tet- (with expressive lengthening: e → ē), from Proto-Indo-European *teta, *tata-, probably formed (via child language) by reduplication from Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”). Cognates include Lithuanian tė̃tis (“dad”), tetà (“aunt”), Old Prussian thetis (“grandfather”), Russian dialectal та́та (táta), Polish tata, Czech táta (“dad”), teta (“aunt”), Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta), Sanskrit ततः (tataḥ), Ancient Greek τέττα (tétta), τατᾶ (tatâ) (vocative), Latin tata (child language), Welsh tad. See: Polish Nouns '
tata', Czech Nouns '
táta', Gothic Nouns '
𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰', Latin Nouns '
tata'.
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