mazināt
Latvian
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Verb
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- second-person plural present indicative of mazināt
mazināt (transitive, 3rd conjugation, present mazinu, mazini, mazina, past mazināju)
- to reduce, to turn down (to make it so that, e.g., a phenomenon, a process, a mental state, etc., becomes less intense, weaker)
- mazināt troksni ― to reduce the noise
- mazināt gaismas spilgtumu ― to turn down the brightness of the light
- mazināt ātrumu ― to reduce the speed
- mazināt prieku, sāpes ― to reduce the joy, the pain
- mazināt gribas spēku ― to reduce the will power
- mazināt negatīvo ietekmi ― to reduce the negative influence
- atpakaļceļā debesis pamazām aizklāj pelēki mākoņi, bet tas karstumu nemazina ― on the way back, gray clouds had covered some of the sky, but this didn't reduce the heat
- paslepeni iebāzu mutē cukura graudiņu, lai mazinātu šī dārgā vīna skābumu ― I secretly put in (my) mouth a sugar cube, in order to reduce the acidity of this expensive wine
- to reduce (to make something be less in quantity or in amount)
- mazināt zāļu devu ― to reduce the medicine dose
- mazināt ūdens patēriņu ― to reduce water consumption
- gads pēc gads aizritēja, un parāds palika nemazināts ― year after year went by, and the debt remained unreduced