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Latvian in everyday situations

Reviews practise both sides: wherever Lukas and Lena would say something differently, you do it once as each.

Nulle, viens, divi

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FormExampleMeaning
One key is here.
One table is here.
Two cups are here.
Two chairs are here.
Three keys are here.
Four cups are here.
How many keys do you have?
How many chairs do you have?

Zero to ten are . Say a telephone number digit by digit. This Latvian course uses 26124739.

Numbers from one to nine have masculine and feminine forms where relevant: . stays the same for both.

Use for how many. In , the counted noun is genitive plural. One item stays singular: . Learn zero as the number ; for absence say .

Gribu, negribu

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FormExampleMeaning
I want tea.
You want tea, familiar.
She wants tea.
We want tea.
You want tea, polite.
They want tea.
· · I am hungry.
· · I am tired.

The present of is . Follow it with an object in the accusative or an infinitive: , . Negation is .

is a useful polite service question. means I would like. This conditional courtesy form is a whole chunk now, not the simple future.

Eleven to twenty are . These numbers do not change for a masculine or feminine counted noun.

Divi eiro, divus eiro

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FormExampleMeaning
Coffee costs two euros thirty.
Here are two euros.
Tea costs one euro fifty.
Here is one euro.
I pay thirty cents.
Here are thirty cents.
The bill, please.
The menu, please.

The tens are . Build a number with the tens then units: . is one hundred.

A named price is nominative: . After as a cost, use an accusative number: . is unchanged, but changes: , .

Ask . Request the bill with . Tea is , a roll , total . The menu’s coffee is .

Sešas olas, sešus ābolus

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FormExampleMeaning
I want six eggs.
I want six apples.
There are six apples here.
There are six eggs here.
I want milk.
I have no money.
· · I am hungry.
· · You are hungry, polite.

Small count numbers agree with the noun. Nominative and become accusative and . For numbers two to nine other than trīs, learn the plural accusative ending -us for masculine numbers; feminine stays -as.

Singular objects include . After many or much use a genitive: . also uses genitive plural.

is I have no money. Notice that no money uses the genitive just like . Possession uses nominative.

Ar pienu, bez cukura

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FormExampleMeaning
Tea with milk, please.
Tea without sugar, please.
Bread with cheese, please.
A pancake with butter, please.
Tea without milk, please.
Bread without cheese, please.
· · I order myself.
· · You order yourself, polite.

In the singular, takes the accusative: . takes the genitive: . The same word changes because its role is different.

For plural nouns after use a dative: , with eggs; , with friends. The ordinary plural dative endings are -iem for masculine and -ām/-ēm for feminine nouns.

A full order can simply list . Every item has the form needed in its own phrase. means I order myself, with real learner gender agreement.

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