nāvessods
See also: nāves sods
Latvian
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From nāves (“death[gen.]”) + sods (“penalty”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nāvessods m (1st declension)
- death penalty, capital punishment (the legal killing of a condemned criminal by the state as punishment for his or her crimes)
- mūsdienu Latvijā nāvessods nav piemērojams ― in modern Latvia the death penalty is not applied
- decembrī, Valmieras pamalē, Karātavu kalnā, izpildīja lauka karatiesas piespriestos nāvessodus vienpadsmit komunistiem un komjauniešiem ― in December, in the outskirts of Valmiera, on Karatāvu hill, (they) carried out the death penalties, ordered by military tribunal, of eleven communists and Komosomol members
Declension
[edit]Declension of nāvessods (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | nāvessods | nāvessodi |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | nāvessodu | nāvessodus |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | nāvessoda | nāvessodu |
dative (datīvs) | nāvessodam | nāvessodiem |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | nāvessodu | nāvessodiem |
locative (lokatīvs) | nāvessodā | nāvessodos |
vocative (vokatīvs) | nāvessod | nāvessodi |