Noun: bebrs
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Gender:
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | bebrs |
| Accusative | bebru |
| Genitive | bebra |
| Dative | bebram |
| Instrumental | bebru |
| Locative | bebrā |
| Vocative | bebr |
Plural
| Nominative | bebri |
| Accusative | bebrus |
| Genitive | bebru |
| Dative | bebriem |
| Instrumental | bebriem |
| Locative | bebros |
| Vocative | bebri |
Sample Sentences
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bebru māte ar trim mazuļiem (a female (lit. mother) beaver with three small ones)
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bebra āda, bebrāda (beaver skin, fur)
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novilkt bebram ādu (to remove a beaver's skin, to skin a beaver)
Nouns inflected like bebrs
gredzens,
greznums,
sniegs,
salāts,
sakars,
diftongs,
smaids,
sonets,
sivēns,
dienests,
piecnieks,
skudrs,
skvērs,
skaits,
pacients,
vilciens,
realizējums,
skatiens,
izskats,
spoguļattēls, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bébrus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus, reduplicated form of *bʰrew- (“shiny, light brown”) (whence also bērs). The original meaning of bebrs was thus “brown one.” Cognates include Lithuanian bẽbras, bebrùs, Old Prussian bebrus, Proto-Slavic *bebrъ, *bobrъ, *bьbrъ (Old East Slavic бебръ (bebrŭ), бобръ (bobrŭ), Russian бобр (bobr), Belarusian бабёр (babjór), бабра́к (babrák), Ukrainian бобе́р (bobér), бібр (bibr), Bulgarian бъ́бър (bắbăr), бо́бър (bóbăr), бе́бер (béber), Czech bobr, Polish bóbr), Old High German bibar, German Biber, English beaver, Avestan 𐬠𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬭𐬀 (bauura), Latin fiber. See: Russian Nouns '
бобр', Belarusan Nouns '
бабёр', Bulgarian Nouns '
бъ́бър', Czech Nouns '
bobr', Polish Nouns '
bóbr', German Nouns '
Biber', English Nouns '
beaver', Latin Nouns '
fiber'.
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