rats

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æts

Noun

rats

1. Plural form of rat

Interjection

rats

1. Expression of annoyance; damn, darn.

Translations

damn, darn

• Dutch: verdorie (nl)
• Finnish: hitto (fi)

• French: zut (fr), flute (fr), peste (fr)

Verb

rats

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rat.

Anagrams

• arts
• star
• tars
• tsar

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Danish

Noun

rats n

1. genitive singular indefinite of rat
2. genitive plural indefinite of rat

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʁa/, X-SAMPA: /Ra/

Noun

rats m pl

1. Plural form of rat

Anagrams

• arts, star, tsar

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Latvian

Stūres rats (1)

Dzirnavu rats (1)

Rati (2)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ret(h), *rot(h). Cognates include Lithuanian rãtas (“wheel”), Sanskrit रथ (ratha, “chariot”), Old High German rad (“wheel”) (German Rad (“wheel”)), Latin rota (“wheel”) (Portuguese roda, Spanish rueda, Italian ruota, Romanian roată, French roue), Albanian rreth (“hoop, circle, wheel rim”).

Noun

rats m, 1st declension

1. (syn. ritenis) wheel (circular device that rotates on its axis)

   stūres rats — steering wheel

   dzirnavu rats — millwheel

   spara rats, spararats — flywheel

   ķēdes pārvada rats — chain wheel

   laimes rats — the wheel of fortune

   pagriezt atpakaļ , apturēt vēstures ratu — to turn back, to stop the wheel of history

2. (only plural) cart, carriage (small wheeled vehicle drawn by animals)

   jūgt zirgu ratos — to harness a horse to a cart

   vienjūga, divjūga rati — a one-, a two-horse cart or carriage

   smagie rati — heavy cart

   rati ar gumijas riteņiem — a cart with rubber wheels

Declension

declension of rats

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	rats	rati
accusative (akuzatīvs)	ratu	ratus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	rata	ratu
dative (datīvs)	ratam	ratiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	ratu	ratiem
locative (lokatīvs)	ratā	ratos
vocative (vokatīvs)	rat	rati

Synonyms

• ritenis