pagātne
See also: pagātnē
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A neologism coined from pagā(jis) (“gone, passed”) + -tne by Atis Kronvalds in 1873, as a calque of German Vergangenheit (“past”), from past participle vergangen (“gone, passed”)). As a grammatical term, it was first used by A. Stērste in 1879.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pagātne f (5th declension)
- past (time period anterior to the present; circumstances previous to the present, current ones)
- tāla pagātne ― distant past
- atcerēties savu pagātni ― to remember one's past
- vēsturiskā, ģeoloģiskā pagātne ― historical, geological past
- tautas pagātne ― the past of a people, ethnic past
- par pagātni vēsta seni raksti, tagadni savām acīm var redzēt ikviens, un nākotne ir noslēpums visiem ― old writings tell about the past, everybody can see the present with their own eyes, and the future is a mystery to all
- cik vien tālu Kaspars spēja atskatīties pagātnē, ziemas vienmēr bija atnākušas pa nakti ― as far as Kaspars could look into the past, winters always came during the night
- (linguistics, grammar) past (verb form describing an action that happens before the current time, before the time of speech)
- vienkāršā, saliktā pagātne ― simple, compound past
Declension
[edit]Declension of pagātne (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | pagātne | — |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | pagātni | — |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | pagātnes | — |
dative (datīvs) | pagātnei | — |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | pagātni | — |
locative (lokatīvs) | pagātnē | — |
vocative (vokatīvs) | pagātne | — |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “pagātne”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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