pasts

pasts

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɑːsts/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pæsts/
• Rhymes: -ɑːsts, -æsts

Noun

pasts

1. plural of past

Anagrams

• PSATs, PTSAs, spats, staps

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Latvian

Pasts Rīgā

Etymology

Borrowed from German Post (itself a borrowing from Italian), first mentioned in 17th/18th-century dictionaries. [1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pasts]

Noun

pasts m (1st declension)

1. mail, post (organization that delivers letters and small packages; place, buildings where it works)

   pasta darbinieks ― postal worker

   pasta krājkase ― postal savings bank

   pasta stacija ― postal station, post office

   pasts iekārtojās tajā pašā namā, kura vienu pusi bija aizņēmusi izpildu komiteja ― the post (office) was placed in the same building in which one half had been occupied by the Executive Committee

   pēc kādas nedēļas Nadīna paziņo, ka pāriešot dzīvot turpat pastā ― after about a week Nadīna announced that she would go live right there in the post (office)

2. mail, post (the regular delivery service of this organization)

   gaisa pasts ― air mail

   pasta sakari ― mail connections, communications

   pasta ceļš ― mail path

3. mail, post (the letters or packages delivered by this organization)

   nosūtīt pastu ― to send the mail

   atnest pastu ― to get, fetch the mail

   pasta vagons ― mail van

   pasta soma ― mail bag

   “pasts uz jūsu galda”, viņa sekretāre teica ― “the mail is on your desk,” his secretary said

   Florencē saņēmām no Rīgas pārsūtīto pastu ― in Florece we received the mail forwarded from Riga

Declension

Declension of pasts (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pasts	—
accusative (akuzatīvs)	pastu	—
genitive (ģenitīvs)	pasta	—
dative (datīvs)	pastam	—
instrumental (instrumentālis)	pastu	—
locative (lokatīvs)	pastā	—
vocative (vokatīvs)	past	—

Derived terms

• pastmarka
• pastnieks, pastniece

See also

• aploksne
• vēstule

References

1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “pasts”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN