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Learning the Lithuanian Cases displayed below is vital to the language. In Lithuanian declension (changing of case) of noun and adjectives is very important property of gramar. There are 7 cases Here are some examples:
In English we have, it can be said, prepositional gramar and in Lithuanian - cases and declension.
In Lithuanian (as in all Baltic and Slavic languages, which are most related among other alive languages) declension (changing of case) of noun and adjectives is very important property of gramar. Here we have 7 cases:
Vardininkas (Nominative) – asks queston Kas? (Who?)
Singular: Dievas (nom.) ir dangus (nom.) – God and sky (paradise).
Plural: Dievai (nom.) ir dangūs (nom.) – Gods and skyes (paradises). (In farther Plural is omitted.)
Kilmininkas (Genitive) - asks queston Ko? Kieno? (Whom?)
Dangus (nom.) yra dievo (gen.). Mes ieškome dangaus (gen.) ir dievo (gen.). – Sky belongs to God. We are looking for paradise and for God.
Naudininkas (Dative) – asks queston Kam? (to whom?)
Galininkas (Accusative) – asks queston Ką? (Who?)
Kad pamatytum dangų (acc.), mylėk dievą (acc.) – If you want to see paradise, you need to love the God.
Įnagininkas (Instrumental) – asks queston Kuo? (using what?)
Dangumi (instr.) ir dievu (instr.) nepasinaudosi. – You can not take and use nor sky (paradise), nor God.
Vietininkas (Locative) – asks queston Kur? Kame? (Where?)
Danguje (loc.) ir dieve (loc.) tvyro ramybė – In the sky and in the God here prevails serenity.
Šauksmininkas (Vocative) – form for invite, call.
O dangau (voc.)! O dieve (voc.)! Šaukiuosi jūsų! – Hey sky! Hey God! I call for you!
Here we have in Lithuanian 5 declensions which take in 12 paradigms (in example above we had dangus from paradigm 5 and dievas from paradigm 1):
|
Flexion of Nominative (Singular) |
Flexion of Dative (Plural) |
Paradigm |
Declension |
|
-as |
-ams |
1 |
(i)a |
|
-ias |
-iams |
2 |
|
|
-is, -ys |
-iams |
3 |
|
|
-us |
-ums |
4 |
(i)u |
|
-ius |
-iams |
5 |
|
|
-a |
-oms |
6 |
(i)o |
|
-ia, -i |
-ioms |
7 |
|
|
-ė |
-ėms |
8 |
ė |
|
-is |
-ims |
9 |
i |
|
-is |
-ims |
10 |
|
|
-uo |
-ims |
11 |
|
|
-uo, -ė |
-ims |
12 |
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