pasts
English
Pronunciation
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Noun
pasts
Anagrams
Latvian
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Etymology
Borrowed from German Post (itself a borrowing from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian), first mentioned in 17th/18th-century dictionaries. [1]
Pronunciation
Noun
pasts m (1st declension)
- mail, post (organization that delivers letters and small packages; place, buildings where it works)
- pasta darbinieks ― postal worker
- pasta krājkase ― postal savings bank
- pasta stacija ― postal station, post office
- pasts iekārtojās tajā pašā namā, kura vienu pusi bija aizņēmusi izpildu komiteja ― the post (office) was placed in the same building in which one half had been occupied by the Executive Committee
- pēc kādas nedēļas Nadīna paziņo, ka pāriešot dzīvot turpat pastā ― after about a week Nadīna announced that she would go live right there in the post (office)
- mail, post (the regular delivery service of this organization)
- gaisa pasts ― air mail
- pasta sakari ― mail connections, communications
- pasta ceļš ― mail path
- mail, post (the letters or packages delivered by this organization)
- nosūtīt pastu ― to send the mail
- atnest pastu ― to get, fetch the mail
- pasta vagons ― mail van
- pasta soma ― mail bag
- “pasts uz jūsu galda”, viņa sekretāre teica ― “the mail is on your desk,” his secretary said
- Florencē saņēmām no Rīgas pārsūtīto pastu ― in Florece we received the mail forwarded from Riga
Declension
Declension of pasts (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | pasts | — |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | pastu | — |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | pasta | — |
dative (datīvs) | pastam | — |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | pastu | — |
locative (lokatīvs) | pastā | — |
vocative (vokatīvs) | past | — |
Derived terms
See also
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “pasts”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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- Latvian first declension nouns
- lv:Post