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Learning the Latvian Adjectives displayed below is vital to the language. Latvian Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence.
While in English an adjective doesn’t change when the noun changes, in Latvian an adjective should agree in gender and number with the noun. For example:
a) Masculine to feminine example:
Šis ir mans mazais dēls (this is my little son) becomes: Šī ir mana mazā meita (this is my little daughter)
As you can see from the example above, the adjective also takes the feminine form.
b) Singular to plural example:
Šis ir mans baltais kaķis (this is my white cat) becomes: Šie ir mani baltie kaķi (these are my white cats).
As you can see from the example above, the adjective also takes the plural form.
Here are some examples:
| English Adjectives | Latvian Adjectives |
|---|---|
| adjectives | Īpašības vārdi |
| a green tree | zaļš koks |
| a tall building | augsta ēka |
| a very old man | ļoti vecs cilvēks |
| the old red house | vecā sarkanā māja |
| a very nice friend | ļoti jauks draugs |
Notice the structure of the Adjectives in Latvian.
Below is a list of the Adjectives, Colors, Shapes, Sizes in Latvian placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Latvian vocabulary.
| English Adjectives | Latvian Adjectives |
|---|---|
| colors | krāsas |
| black | melna krāsa |
| blue | zila krāsa |
| brown | brūna krāsa |
| gray | pelēka krāsa |
| green | zaļa krāsa |
| orange | oranža krāsa |
| purple | purpura krāsa, purpursarkana krāsa |
| red | sarkana krāsa |
| white | balta krāsa |
| yellow | dzeltena krāsa |
| sizes | izmēri |
| big | liels |
| deep | dziļš |
| long | garš |
| narrow | šaurs |
| short | īss |
| small | mazs |
| tall | augsts |
| thick | biezs |
| thin | plāns |
| wide | plašs |
| shapes | formas |
| circular | apaļš/apaļa |
| straight | taisns/taisna |
| square | kvadrātveida |
| triangular | trīsstūra |
| tastes | garšas |
| bitter | rūgts/rūgta |
| fresh | svaigs/svaiga |
| salty | sāļš/sāļa |
| sour | skābs/skāba |
| spicy | pikants/pikanta |
| sweet | salds/salda |
| qualities | īpašības |
| bad | slikts/slikta |
| clean | tīrs /tīra |
| dark | tumšs /tumša |
| difficult | grūts/grūta |
| dirty | netīrs /netīra |
| dry | sauss /sausa |
| easy | viegls/viegla |
| empty | tukšs /tukša |
| expensive | dārgs /dārga |
| fast | ātrs/ātra |
| foreign | ārzemju |
| full | pilns /pilna |
| good | labs/laba |
| hard | grūts/grūta |
| heavy | smags /smaga |
| inexpensive | lēts /lēta |
| light | viegls/viegla //gaišs/gaiša |
| local | pašvaldības, vietējs /vietēja |
| new | jauns /jauna |
| noisy | trokšņains /trokšņaina |
| old | vecs /veca |
| powerful | spēcīgs /spēcīga |
| quiet | kluss /klusa |
| correct | pareizs /pareiza |
| slow | lēns /lēna |
| soft | mīksta |
| very | ļoti |
| weak | vājš /vāja |
| wet | slapjš /slapja |
| wrong | nepareizs/nepareiza |
| young | jauns /jauna |
| quantities | daudzumi |
| few | nedaudz |
| little | maz |
| many | daudz |
| much | daudz |
| part | daļa |
| some | daži |
| a few | daži |
| whole | viss |
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