ukrainisks
Latvian
Etymology
From ukrainis (“Ukrainian”) + -isks, or maybe from Ukraina (“Ukraine”) + -isks.
Adjective
ukrainisks (definite ukrainiskais, comparative ukrainiskāks, superlative visukrainiskākais, adverb ukrainiski)
- Ukrainian (relating to the Ukrainian language; relating to Ukrainians or to Ukraine)
- arī fonētika Timošenko nav ukrainiska ― also Timoshenko's phonetics (i.e., pronunciation) is not Ukrainian
- ar šlepēm ir nevis krievisks, bet ukrainisks ― with the skis (there) is nothing Russian, but Ukrainain (i.e., the skis are not Russian, but Ukrainian)
Usage notes
English “Ukrainian” as an attributive adjective usually corresponds in Latvian to ukraiņu, the genitive plural form of ukrainis. The adjective ukrainisks is commonly used as a predicate (“this is Ukrainian”), or in its adverbial form ukrainiski.
Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of ukrainisks
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
| nominative (nominatīvs) | ukrainisks | ukrainiski | ukrainiska | ukrainiskas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | ukrainisku | ukrainiskus | ukrainisku | ukrainiskas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | ukrainiska | ukrainisku | ukrainiskas | ukrainisku | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | ukrainiskam | ukrainiskiem | ukrainiskai | ukrainiskām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | ukrainisku | ukrainiskiem | ukrainisku | ukrainiskām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | ukrainiskā | ukrainiskos | ukrainiskā | ukrainiskās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
Related terms
- Ukraina
- ukrainis, ukrainiete
- ukraiņu valoda