šmaukt

Latvian[edit]

From Proto-Baltic *smyauk-, from Proto-Indo-European *smewk-, *mewk- (“slick, slimy, slippery, to slide”), from a stem *meu- (“humid”) (whence also mukt, maukt and šmaugs, q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian smaũkti (“to pluck, to pull, to roll up, to push, to shove, to caress, to deceive, to cheat, to go slowly”).^[1]

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šmaukt (transitive or intransitive, 1st conjugation, present šmaucu, šmauc, šmauc, past šmaucu)

(colloquial) to go quickly, to run
suns pienāk pie durvīm un paraugās, kas ārā notiek... ja pamatīgi līst, mājas sargs šmauc atpakaļ virtuvē ― the dog comes to the door to check what is happening outside... if it is raining heavily, the house defender (= dog) runs back into the kitchen
(colloquial, transitive) to cheat, to deceive
šmaukt pircējus ― to cheat (one's) buyers, clients

ak, kā mēs mīlam ar savu īsredzību sevi un citus šmaukt! ― oh, how we love to deceive ourselves and others with our short-sightedness!

man tik un tā neticēs, jo es šos lāga cilvēkus, tīri negribēdams, biju šodien pietiekoši šmaucis ― people will sometimes not believe me, because I, totally unwillingly, have sufficiently deceived those nice people today

conjugation of šmaukt

	INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme)				IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme)
		Present (tagadne)	Past (pagātne)	Future (nākotne)	IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme)
1st pers. sg.	es	šmaucu	šmaucu	šmaukšu	—
2nd pers. sg.	tu	šmauc	šmauci	šmauksi	šmauc
3rd pers. sg.	viņš, viņa	šmauc	šmauca	šmauks	lai šmauc
1st pers. pl.	mēs	šmaucam	šmaucām	šmauksim	šmauksim
2nd pers. pl.	jūs	šmaucat	šmaucāt	šmauksiet, šmauksit	šmauciet
3rd pers. pl.	viņi, viņas	šmauc	šmauca	šmauks	lai šmauc

RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme)			PARTICIPLES (divdabji)
Present	šmaucot		Present Active 1 (Adj.)		šmaucošs
Past	esot šmaucis		Present Active 2 (Adv.)		šmaukdams
Future	šmaukšot		Present Active 3 (Adv.)		šmaucot
Imperative	lai šmaucot		Present Active 4 (Obj.)		šmaucam
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme)			Past Active		šmaucis
Present	šmauktu		Present Passive		šmaucams
Past	būtu šmaucis		Past Passive		šmaukts
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme)			NOMINAL FORMS
Indicative	(būt) jāšmauc		Infinitive (nenoteiksme)		šmaukt
Conjunctive 1	esot jāšmauc		Negative Infinitive		nešmaukt
Conjunctive 2	jāšmaucot		Verbal noun		šmaukšana

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