gadalaiks
Latvian
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Etymology
From gada (“year[gen.]”) + laiks (“time”), probably a calque of German Jahreszeit.
Pronunciation
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Noun
gadalaiks m (1st declension)
- season of the year (i.e., spring, summer, autumn, winter: periods of the year characterized by different average weather conditions)
- silts, auksts gadalaiks ― warm, cold season
- lietains, sauss gadalaiks ― rainy, dry season
- klimatiskie gadalaiki ― climatic seasons
- viņa pati bija kā dzimtenes daba ar tās četriem gadalaikiem, kas cits aiz cita mijas ― she herself was like (our) homeland nature with its four seasons, which came one after the other
- gleznotāja audeklos tēloti gadalaiki... tur ir pavasari un vasaras, tur ir rudeņi un ziemas ― in the painter's canvasses the seasons (were) depicted... here are springs and summers, there are autumns and winters
Declension
Declension of gadalaiks (1st declension)
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| nominative (nominatīvs) | gadalaiks | gadalaiki |
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | gadalaiku | gadalaikus |
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | gadalaika | gadalaiku |
| dative (datīvs) | gadalaikam | gadalaikiem |
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | gadalaiku | gadalaikiem |
| locative (lokatīvs) | gadalaikā | gadalaikos |
| vocative (vokatīvs) | gadalaiks | gadalaiki |
Synonyms
- sezona
See also
(seasons) četri gadalaiki; pavasaris, vasara, rudens, ziema (Category: lv:Seasons)