Noun: svainiene
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | svainiene |
| Accusative | svainieni |
| Genitive | svainienes |
| Dative | svainienei |
| Instrumental | svainieni |
| Locative | svainienē |
| Vocative | svainiene |
Plural
| Nominative | svainienes |
| Accusative | svainienes |
| Genitive | svainieņu |
| Dative | svainienēm |
| Instrumental | svainienēm |
| Locative | svainienēs |
| Vocative | svainienes |
Sample Sentences
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“vēl nesen biju aizbraucis pat uz savu veco ciemu...” “tur pie brāļa sievas?” “tur, jā, bet svainieni nesatiku” (“I even recently went to my old village...” “there, at your brother's wife's (house)?” “yes, there, but I didn't meet my sister-in-law”)
Nouns inflected like svainiene
hercogiene,
tīģeriene,
piedurkne,
piedrokne,
balsene,
piedrukne,
brūklene,
zaķene,
zilene,
zemene,
prombūtne,
paliene,
galotne,
kinozvaigzne,
firstiene,
pilsone,
nometne,
pienene,
ķēniņiene,
zinātne, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From svainis (“brother-in-law”) + -iene (“fem.”).
Translations