Noun: kols
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | kols |
| Accusative | kolu |
| Genitive | kola |
| Dative | kolam |
| Instrumental | kolu |
| Locative | kolā |
| Vocative | kol |
Plural
| Nominative | koli |
| Accusative | kolus |
| Genitive | kolu |
| Dative | koliem |
| Instrumental | koliem |
| Locative | kolos |
| Vocative | koli |
Sample Sentences
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kols ir ne vien gramatiski, bet arī jēdzieniski nosacīta pieturzīme... tas arvien norāda uz sekojošu paskaidrojumu (the colon is a punctuation mark conditioned not only grammatically, but also conceptually... it always points to a following explanation)
Nouns inflected like kols
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
Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin cōlon (“a member of a verse of poem”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon, “a member, limb, clause, part of a verse”). See: Latin Nouns '
cōlon'.
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