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mēs

mēs

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mes"

Latvian

Alternative forms

  • (dialectal, archaic form) mes

Pronoun

mēs (personal, 1st person plural)

  1. we; first person pronoun, referring to the speaker and other people
    mēs te strādājamwe work here
    Eiropa mūs nesapratīs ― Europe will not understand us
    viņš dzīvo pie mums ― he lives with (lit. by) us
    mēs ar Juhanu un Kārli pārnesām savu mantību uz aitu kūtiJuhans, Kārlis and I (lit. we with Juhans and Kārlis) took our possessions over to the sheep barn
    vai mūsu tauta pavisam zaudējusi balsi? ― has our people completely lost (its) voice?

Declension

Related terms

  • mūsējs

See also

References

  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), mēs; mūs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7