How to form the plural in Latvian

How to form the plural in Latvian

You want to learn how to use the plural in Latvian? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Latvian lessons complete with useful examples. Apples, houses, books... we'll teach you everything you need to know about the plural in Latvian.

Latvian nouns - plural

The plural is used, in general, to talk about more than one object. Examples in English would be 'dogs', 'cats', 'houses' and 'children'. In Latvian, the plural is formed with the ending '-i' or the ending '-s'.

Examples

bērni
children
sievietes
women
vīri
men
krēsli
chairs
grāmatas
books
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Step 5 : The plural in Latvian

The plural is important in Latvian when you need to talk about more than one thing. Using the nouns grāmata , krēsls  and durvis  (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn the plural of each of these words by heart. The plural forms are grāmatas, krēsli and durvis. Now learn how to use each of these Latvian plural nouns with the definite article. The nouns together with the definite article are grāmatas, krēsli and durvis (the books, the chairs, the doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about the Latvian plural including useful examples. After you've learned the plural of grāmata , krēsls  and durvis , you can move on to Step 6 (Latvian demonstrative pronouns).

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