Noun: pasts
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | pasts |
| Accusative | pastu |
| Genitive | pasta |
| Dative | pastam |
| Instrumental | pastu |
| Locative | pastā |
| Vocative | past |
Plural
Sample Sentences
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pasta darbinieks (postal worker)
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pasta krājkase (postal savings bank)
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pasta stacija (postal station, post office)
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pasts iekārtojās tajā pašā namā, kura vienu pusi bija aizņēmusi izpildu komiteja (the post (office) was placed in the same building in which one half had been occupied by the Executive Committee)
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pēc kādas nedēļas Nadīna paziņo, ka pāriešot dzīvot turpat pastā (after about a week Nadīna announced that she would go live right there in the post (office))
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gaisa pasts (air mail)
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pasta sakari (mail connections, communications)
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pasta ceļš (mail path)
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nosūtīt pastu (to send the mail)
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atnest pastu (to get, fetch the mail)
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pasta vagons (mail van)
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pasta soma (mail bag)
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“pasts uz jūsu galda”, viņa sekretāre teica (“the mail is on your desk,” his secretary said)
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Florencē saņēmām no Rīgas pārsūtīto pastu (in Florece we received the mail forwarded from Riga)
Nouns inflected like pasts
selēns,
pēkšņums,
valodīgums,
skandijs,
žiglums,
izbrīns,
vēsums,
paradoksālums,
vājums,
badmintons,
oglekļa dioksīds,
lourensijs,
darba lauks,
plānums,
baigums,
sāļums,
adrenalīns,
rēnijs,
rādijs,
brūnums, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from German Post (itself a borrowing from Italian), first mentioned in 17th/18th-century dictionaries. See: German Nouns '
Post'.
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