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krievisks

krievisks

Latvian

Adjective

krievisks (def. krieviskais, comp. krieviskāks, sup. viskrieviskākais; adv. krieviski)

  1. Russian (relating to the Russian language; relating to Russians or to Russia)
    krievisks ornamentsRussian ornament

Declension

Usage notes

English “Russian” as an attributive adjective usually correponds in Latvian to krievu, the genitive plural form of krievs. The adjective krievisks is commonly used as a predicate (“this is Russian”), or in its adverbial form krieviski.

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