septiņi

Latvian

Etymology

From a previous undeclinable *septin (by analogy assimilated to the class of nouns in -iņš, plural -iņi), from Proto-Baltic *septim, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”). Cognates include Lithuanian septynì, Old Prussian sep(t)mas (“seventh”), Proto-Slavic *sedmъ (“seventh”), replacing an older Proto-Slavic *setь (Old Church Slavonic сєдмь (sedmĭ), Russian семь (sem'), Belarusian сем (sem), Ukrainian сім (sim), Bulgarian седем (sédem), Czech sedm, Polish siedm), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌱𐌿𐌽 (sibun), Old High German sibun, Old English seofon, German sieben, English seven, Hittite šipta, Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá), Latin septem.

Pronunciation

Latvian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : septiņi     Ordinal : septītais     Multiplier : septiņreiz     Nominal : septiņnieks     Fractional : septītdaļa
Latvian Wikipedia article on septiņi

• IPA: [sɛptiɲi]

Numeral

septiņi

1. seven (the cipher, the cardinal number seven)

   trīs un četri ir septiņi — three plus four is seven

   divreiz septiņi ir četrpadsmit — two times seven is fourteen

   reizināt ar septiņi — to multiply by seven

   septiņi ir laimes skaitlis — seven is a happy (= lucky, fortunate) number

   pie četriem pielikt septiņus — to add seven to four

2. seven (an amount equal to seven)

   septiņi metri auduma — seven meters of fabric

   pagaidīt septiņas minūtes — to wait for seven minutes

   septiņi gadi, septiņus gadus vecs bērns — a seven year old child

   septiņu stundu darbadiena — a seven-hour working day

3. seven o'clock (a moment in time; seven hours after midnight, or after noon)

   pulkstenis ir septiņi — it is seven o'clock

   septiņos no rīta — at seven o'clock in the morning

   koncerts sākas septiņos vakarā — the concert begins at seven o'clock at night

Declension

declension of septiņi

	masculine (vīriešu dzimte)	feminine (sieviešu dzimte)
nominative (nominatīvs)	septiņi	septiņas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	septiņus	septiņas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	septiņu	septiņu
dative (datīvs)	septiņiem	septiņām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	septiņiem	septiņām
locative (lokatīvs)	septiņos	septiņās
vocative (vokatīvs)	—	—

See also

• skaitlis
• Basic numbers (0-10):

  0 nulle, 1 viens, 2 divi, 3 trīs, 4 četri, 5 pieci, 6 seši, 7 septiņi, 8 astoņi, 9 deviņi, 10 desmit

References