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ukrainisks
ukrainisks
Latvian
Adjective
ukrainisks (def. ukrainiskais, comp. ukrainiskāks, sup. visukrainiskākais; adv. ukrainiski)
- Ukrainian (relating to the Ukrainian language; relating to Ukrainians or to Ukraine)
- arī fonētika Timošenko nav ukrainiska ― also Timoshenko's phonetics (i.e., pronunciation) is not Ukrainian
- ar šlepēm ir nevis krievisks, bet ukrainisks ― with the skis (there) is nothing Russian, but Ukrainain (i.e., the skis are not Russian, but Ukrainian)
Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of ukrainisks
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
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| singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
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| nominative (nominatīvs) | ukrainisks | ukrainiski | ukrainiska | ukrainiskas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | ukrainisku | ukrainiskus | ukrainisku | ukrainiskas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | ukrainiska | ukrainisku | ukrainiskas | ukrainisku | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | ukrainiskam | ukrainiskiem | ukrainiskai | ukrainiskām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | ukrainisku | ukrainiskiem | ukrainisku | ukrainiskām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | ukrainiskā | ukrainiskos | ukrainiskā | ukrainiskās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
Usage notes
English “Ukrainian” as an attributive adjective usually correponds in Latvian to ukraiņu, the genitive plural form of ukrainis. The adjective ukrainisks is commonly used as a predicate (“this is Ukrainian”), or in its adverbial form ukrainiski.