tagadne
See also: tagadnē
Latvian
editAlternative forms
edit- (obsolete form) tagadiene
Etymology
editCoined by Atis Kronvalds in 1869, from tagad (“now”) + -ne, at first in the form tagadiene, later on (in the 1870s) in its present form. As a grammatical term, it was first used by A. Stērste in 1879.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittagadne f (5th declension)
- present (the current time period; the circumstances of the current time period)
- tas ir tagadnes cilvēka lāsts ― this is the curse of present-day man (lit. person)
- režisors pievērsies filozofiskiem vispārinājumiem, meklē dzīvo saikni starp vakardienu, šodienu un rītdienu, starp pagātni, tagadni un nākotni ― the (film) director turned to philosophical generalizations, he looked for a living link between yesterday, today, and tomorrow, between the past, the present, and the future
- (linguistics, grammar) present tense (a verb form describing an action that happens in the present time, at the moment of speech)
- vienkāršā, saliktā tagadne ― simple, compound present
- tagadnes lokāmais divdabis ― inflected present participle
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
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nominative | tagadne | — |
genitive | tagadnes | — |
dative | tagadnei | — |
accusative | tagadni | — |
instrumental | tagadni | — |
locative | tagadnē | — |
vocative | tagadne | — |
Synonyms
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editReferences
edit- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “tagadne”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN