tagadiene

See also: tagadienē

LatvianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Coined by Atis Kronvalds in 1869 from tagad (“now”) +‎ -iene, soon changed to its modern form tagadne.^[1]

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

tagadiene f (5th declension)

(obsolete term) present, current time; alternative form of tagadne

DeclensionEdit

Declension of tagadiene (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	tagadiene	—
accusative (akuzatīvs)	tagadieni	—
genitive (ģenitīvs)	tagadienes	—
dative (datīvs)	tagadienei	—
instrumental (instrumentālis)	tagadieni	—
locative (lokatīvs)	tagadienē	—
vocative (vokatīvs)	tagadiene	—

ReferencesEdit

^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “tagadne”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

[1] Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “tagadne”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

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