zagt

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German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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  • Rhymes: -aːkt

Verb[edit]

zagt

  1. inflection of zagen:
    1. second-person plural present
    2. third-person singular present
    3. plural imperative

Latvian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Usually derived from Proto-Baltic *žangō (from Latvian *zuoguo, from the present tense form zogu), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ- (“dirty”). The semantic evolution was presumably from “to make dirty, to defile” to “to defile by stealing” to “to steal”. Cognates include Lithuanian žàgti, present form: žagiù (“to make dirty, to steal”), present form: žangù (“to eat something forbidden, to steal”); from the adjectival form *ǵʰogʰos (“dirty”), also Sanskrit जघन (jaghana, “buttocks; shame”), Ancient Greek κοχώνη (kokhṓnē, “crotch”). A more recent hypothesis relates zagt to Lithuanian žeñgti (“to walk, to go”), iterative form žangýti; the present tense form žangaũ would then correspond to Latvian zogu. This hypothesis would presumably explain better the meaning of Latvian reflexive form zagties (“to sneak, to go without being noticed”) (compare to Russian красть (krastʹ, “to steal”) и красться (krastʹsja, “to walk, to go without being noticed”)).[1]

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Verb[edit]

zagt (transitive or intransitive, 1st conjugation, present zogu, zodz, zog, past zagu)

  1. to steal (to take something without permission, against the law, often also secretly, unbeknownst to its owner)
    zagta manta ― stolen property
    lai iegūtu līdzekļus eksistēšanai, viņš gāja zagt ― in order to obtain the means of existing (= living), he went stealing
    es neesmu zadzis cita mantu ― I haven't stolen other people's property
  2. (figuratively) to steal (to obtain, to use secretly, without permission)
    jūs zogat skaistāko, kas cilvēkam vien var būt; jūs zogat sapņus, jus zogat nākotni ― you steal the most beautiful (things) a person can have; you steal dreams, you steal the future
  3. (figuratively) to steal (to cause someone to lose something, to not be able to use or have something)
    rīt ārsti attālinās nāves varu, kas pāragri mums dzīves gadus zog ― tomorrow the doctors will push away the power of death, which has stolen life years prematurely from us

Conjugation[edit]

conjugation of zagt
INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) IMPERATIVE
(pavēles izteiksme)
Present
(tagadne) 		Past
(pagātne) 		Future
(nākotne)
1st pers. sg. es zogu zagu zagšu —
2nd pers. sg. tu zodz zagi zagsi zodz
3rd pers. sg. viņš, viņa zog zaga zags lai zog
1st pers. pl. mēs zogam zagām zagsim zagsim
2nd pers. pl. jūs zogat zagāt zagsiet,
zagsit 		zodziet
3rd pers. pl. viņi, viņas zog zaga zags lai zog
RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) PARTICIPLES (divdabji)
Present zogot Present Active 1 (Adj.) zogošs
Past esot zadzis Present Active 2 (Adv.) zagdams
Future zagšot Present Active 3 (Adv.) zogot
Imperative lai zogot Present Active 4 (Obj.) zogam
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) Past Active zadzis
Present zagtu Present Passive zogams
Past būtu zadzis Past Passive zagts
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) NOMINAL FORMS
Indicative (būt) jāzog Infinitive (nenoteiksme) zagt
Conjunctive 1 esot jāzog Negative Infinitive nezagt
Conjunctive 2 jāzogot Verbal noun zagšana

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “zagt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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