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garš
garš
Latvian
Adjective
garš (def. garais, comp. garāks, sup. visgarākais; adv. gari)
- long (having a relatively great distance from one end to the other)
- gara aukla ― long string
- garš galds ― long table
- gara auguma cilvēks ― tall (lit. long height) person
- garas kājas ― long legs
- gari mati ― long hair
- putns ar garu knābi ― bird with a long beak
- gara ēna ― long shadow
- gara iela, upe ― long street, river
- garais pirksts ― the long finger (= middle finger)
- garie viļņi ― longwaves (radio waves with wavelength above 1,000 meters)
- (with numeric measurement in the accusative) long
- metru gara stieple ― one-meter long wire
- noiet divdesmit kilometru garu ceļa gabalu ― to go, cover a 20-kilometer long stretch of road
- long (having more than usual or necessery, appropriate, desired length; covering more of the body than usual)
- garš mētelis ― long coat
- gara kleita ― long dress
- garās zeķes ― stockings (lit. long socks)
- garie cimdi ― long gloves (e.g., women's gloves, up to the elbow)
- (of texts, speeches, etc.) long (having relatively large volume, relatively much content)
- garš romāns ― long novel
- gara poēma ― long poem
- garš teikums ― long, many-word sentence
- (of time periods) long (lasting for quite a while)
- gara ziema ― long winter
- garie ziemas vakari ― long winter evenings, nights
- garš mūžs ― long life
- garš laiks ― long, boring time (said whe none is bored)
- aiz gara laika, gara laika deļ ― because of boredom (lit. long time)
- garais gads ― leap (lit. long) year (with 366 days)
- (of events, activities) long (having a certain time duration)
- 'garš ceļojums ― a long journey
- ļoti gara saruna ― a very long conversation
- (phonetics, phonology) long (pronounced with longer duration)
- garš patskanis ― long vowel
- gara zilbe ― long syllable
- (of body parts) outstretched, extended
- Mārtiņš rokas pēc iespējas garākas izstiepis ― Mārtiņš stretched out (his) arms as far as possible
Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of garš
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
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| nominative (nominatīvs) | garš | gari | gara | garas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | garu | garus | garu | garas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | gara | garu | garas | garu | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | garam | gariem | garai | garām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | garu | gariem | garu | garām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | garā | garos | garā | garās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
Synonyms
- (of time): ilgs
Derived terms
Antonyms
References
- ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “garš”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7