Noun: kartupelis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | kartupelis |
| Accusative | kartupeli |
| Genitive | kartupeļa |
| Dative | kartupelim |
| Instrumental | kartupeli |
| Locative | kartupelī |
| Vocative | kartupeli |
Plural
| Nominative | kartupeļi |
| Accusative | kartupeļus |
| Genitive | kartupeļu |
| Dative | kartupeļiem |
| Instrumental | kartupeļiem |
| Locative | kartupeļos |
| Vocative | kartupeļi |
Sample Sentences
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kartupeļu (lakstu) puve (potato (stem) rot (= a potato disease))
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kartupeļu šķirnes (potato varieties)
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rakt kartupeļus (to dig for potatoes)
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kartupeļu maiss (potato sack)
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mizot, vārīt, cept kartupeļus (to peel, to boil, to bake potatoes)
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kartupeļu biezenis, biezputra (mashed potatoes (lit. potato puree))
Nouns inflected like kartupelis
seklis,
skaitlis,
vēdeklis,
ķeblis,
vēceklis,
krauklis,
sēklis,
bacilis,
skrimslis,
pedālis,
zaglis,
numerālis,
uzgalis,
portugālis,
spieģelis,
paeglis,
kabatzaglis,
gaismeklis,
cīrulis,
sabulis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
A borrowing, from Baltic German Kartoffel, Kartuffel (compare Low German Kartuffel, Standard High German Kartoffel, Danish kartoffel), from a Romance language: compare Romansh tartuffel, Italian tartufalo, from tartufo (“truffle”). The Latvian form is first attested at the beginning of the 18th century. A number of other (often unrelated) terms for “potato” exist in Latvian dialects alongside the standard word. See: German Nouns '
Kartoffel', Danish Nouns '
kartoffel'.
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