jaunums

Latvian

From jauns (“new”) +‎ -ums.

jaunums m (1st declension)

newness, youth (the quality of being new, young; syn. jaunība)
meitenes jaunums ― the girl's youth
news, novelty (something recently invented, discovered, created, composed, published, something that happened recently)
zinātnes jaunumi ― science news, new scientific advances

tehnikas jaunumi ― technical, technological news, new technical, technological advances

kora mūzikas jaunumi ― choir music news, new works

viņš visu brīvo laiku klaiņoja pa grāmatu veikaliem, meklēdams literārus jaunumus ― he spent all his free time wandering through bookstores, looking for literary novelties
something new, novelty (something that didn't exist before)
jaunums “Vaidelotes” izrādē ir tas, ka pieccēlienu lugu teātris rāda ar vienu starpbrīdi ― what is new, the novelty in this performance of “Vaidelotes” is that the theater presented a five-act play with (only) one interval
news (new facts, information)
viņš apsprieda avīzē izlasītos sporta jaunumus ― he discussed sports news read on a newspaper

a, tātad nu viņu ieliņā būs zobārste; tas ir liels jaunums ― ah, so now there will be a (female) dentist in their little street; this is big news

Declension of jaunums (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	jaunums	jaunumi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	jaunumu	jaunumus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	jaunuma	jaunumu
dative (datīvs)	jaunumam	jaunumiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	jaunumu	jaunumiem
locative (lokatīvs)	jaunumā	jaunumos
vocative (vokatīvs)	jaunum	jaunumi