čehisks
Latvian
Etymology
Adjective
čehisks (def. čehiskais, comp. čehiskāks, sup. visčehiskākais; adv. čehiski)
- Czech (relating to the Czech language; relating to Czechs or to the Czech Republic, to Czechia)
- Bohumila Hrabala “Es apkalpoju Anglijas karali” šķiet ļoti čehisks romāns — Bohumila Hrabala's “I served the King of England” is a very Czech novel
Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of čehisks
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
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| singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
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| nominative (nominatīvs) | čehisks | čehiski | čehiska | čehiskas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | čehisku | čehiskus | čehisku | čehiskas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | čehiska | čehisku | čehiskas | čehisku | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | čehiskam | čehiskiem | čehiskai | čehiskām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | čehisku | čehiskiem | čehisku | čehiskām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | čehiskā | čehiskos | čehiskā | čehiskās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
Usage notes
English “Czech” as an attributive adjective usually correponds in Latvian to čehu, the genitive plural form of čehs. The adjective čehisks is commonly used as a predicate (“this is Czech”), or in its adverbial form čehiski.