rats

See also: Rats, RATs, and 'rats

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹæts/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -æts

Noun

rats

1. plural of rat

Interjection

rats

1. (informal) Expression of annoyance or disgust; damn, darn. [from 1886]
2. (informal) Expression of disbelief.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "It's damned clever - fair puzzles 'em every time. How d'ye get them?" "I tell you I don't. It's outside myself." "Rats! You can tell me, Tom. I'm Griffiths, the safe man."

Translations

damn, darn

• Dutch: verdorie (nl)
• Finnish: hitto (fi)
• French: zut (fr), flute (fr), peste (fr)
• Galician: carai, corno (gl), concho (gl)
• Portuguese: caraças
• Swedish: tusan (sv)

Verb

rats

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of rat

See also

• give a rats

Anagrams

• RAST, RTAs, Star, TSRA, arts, arts., sart, star, tars, tsar

Catalan

Noun

rats

1. plural of rat

Danish

Noun

rats n

1. indefinite genitive singular of rat
2. indefinite genitive plural of rat

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

rats m

1. plural of rat

Anagrams

• arts, star, tsar, tars

Latgalian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *retas. Cognates include Latvian rets and Lithuanian retas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrat͡s]
• Hyphenation: rats

Adjective

rats

1. rare

Declension

Indefinite declension of rats (type 1 adjective)

	masculine		feminine
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	rats	rati	rata	ratys, ratas1)
genitive	rata	ratu	ratys, ratas1)	ratu
dative	ratam	ratim	ratai	ratom
accusative	ratu	ratus	ratu	ratys, ratas1)
instrumental	ratu	ratim	ratu	ratom
locative	ratā	ratūs	ratā	ratuos
1) dialectal

Definite declension of rats (type 1 adjective)

	masculine		feminine
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	ratais, ratīs	ratī	ratuo	ratuos
genitive	ratuo	ratūs	ratuos	ratūs
dative	ratajam	ratajim	ratajai	ratajom
accusative	ratū	ratūs	ratū	ratuos
instrumental	ratū	ratajim	ratū	ratajom
locative	ratajā	ratajūs	ratajā	ratajuos

References

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN

Latvian

Stūres rats (1)

Dzirnavu rats (1)

Rati (2)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ret(h), *rot(h). Cognates include Lithuanian rãtas (“wheel”), Sanskrit रथ (ratha, “chariot”), Old High German rad (“wheel”) (German Rad (“wheel”)), Latin rota (“wheel”) (Portuguese roda, Spanish rueda, Italian ruota, Romanian roată, French roue), Albanian rreth (“hoop, circle, wheel rim”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɾats]

Noun

rats m (1st declension)

1. wheel (circular device that rotates on its axis)

   stūres rats ― steering wheel

   dzirnavu rats ― millwheel

   spara rats, spararats ― flywheel

   ķēdes pārvada rats ― chain wheel

   laimes rats ― the wheel of fortune

   pagriezt atpakaļ , apturēt vēstures ratu ― to turn back, to stop the wheel of history

2. (only plural) cart, carriage (small wheeled vehicle drawn by animals)

   jūgt zirgu ratos ― to harness a horse to a cart

   vienjūga, divjūga rati ― a one-, a two-horse cart or carriage

   smagie rati ― heavy cart

   rati ar gumijas riteņiem ― a cart with rubber wheels

Declension

Declension of rats (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	rats	rati
accusative (akuzatīvs)	ratu	ratus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	rata	ratu
dative (datīvs)	ratam	ratiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	ratu	ratiem
locative (lokatīvs)	ratā	ratos
vocative (vokatīvs)	rat	rati

Synonyms

• ritenis

Volapük

Noun

rats

1. nominative plural of rat