idiots
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editidiots m
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editVia other European languages, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “a private citizen, one who has no professional knowledge, layman”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private”); ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs) was used derisively in ancient Athens to refer to one who declined to take part in public life.
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Noun
editidiots m (1st declension, feminine form: idiote)
- (male) idiot (person with extremely serious problems in their mental development)
- idiots kopš bernības ― idiot from birth
- (colloquial) (male) fool, stupid man
- Jānis nosauca viņu par idiotu un pēc tam divas dienas nerunāja ne vārda ― Jānis called him an idiot and after that didn't say a word for two days
- es, protams, biju idiots; man nevajadzēja šurp braukt! ― I, of course, was an idiot; I shouldn't have come here!
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singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | idiots | idioti |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | idiotu | idiotus |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | idiota | idiotu |
dative (datīvs) | idiotam | idiotiem |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | idiotu | idiotiem |
locative (lokatīvs) | idiotā | idiotos |
vocative (vokatīvs) | idiot | idioti |
Synonyms
edit- (of "mentally undeveloped") debils (adjective), imbecils (adjective)
- (of "fool", "stupid") duraks, muļķis, muļķadesa, nejēga, neprātis, stulbenis
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