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slidens
slidens
Latvian
Alternative forms
- (dialectal form) slids
Adjective
slidens (def. slidenais, comp. slidenāks, sup. visslidenākais; adv. slideni)
- slippery, slick (with a surface that has little attrition)
- slidens ceļš ― slippery path, road
- slidena virsma ― slippery surface
- slidens parkets ― slippery flooring
- slidenas kurpju zoles ― slippery shoe soles
- slidenas kāpnes ― slippery stairs
- (figuratively) slippery, slick (associated with risk, with difficulty)
- slidens pasākums ― a slippery, difficult enterprise, project
- diezgan slidena dzejas problēma ― the rather slippery problem of poetry
Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of slidens
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
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| nominative (nominatīvs) | slidens | slideni | slidena | slidenas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | slidenu | slidenus | slidenu | slidenas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | slidena | slidenu | slidenas | slidenu | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | slidenam | slideniem | slidenai | slidenām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | slidenu | slideniem | slidenu | slidenām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | slidenā | slidenos | slidenā | slidenās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
Derived terms
Related terms
- slīdēt
- slidot
References
- ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “slīdēt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7