How to use demonstrative pronouns in Latvian

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Latvian

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Latvian? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Latvian lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Latvian demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Latvian demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' is 'šīs' or 'šī' in Latvian. The word 'šīs' is used with masculine words and the word 'šī' is used with feminine words.

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šis akmens
this stone
šīs durvis
this door
šis cilvēks
this person
šis zēns
this boy
šī ēka
this building
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Step 6 : Latvian demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns grāmata , krēsls  and durvis  (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Latvian demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Latvian demonstrative pronouns with the nouns grāmata , krēsls  and durvis  and the plural nouns grāmatas, krēsli and durvis you can move on to Step 7 (Latvian adjectives).

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