Noun: zeme
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | zeme |
| Accusative | zemi |
| Genitive | zemes |
| Dative | zemei |
| Instrumental | zemi |
| Locative | zemē |
| Vocative | zeme |
Plural
| Nominative | zemes |
| Accusative | zemes |
| Genitive | zemju |
| Dative | zemēm |
| Instrumental | zemēm |
| Locative | zemēs |
| Vocative | zemes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like zeme
pieturzīme,
sakāve,
skrūve,
sadursme,
laukirbe,
biškope,
nenoteiksme,
ceptuve,
nelaime,
tēvzeme,
garumzīme,
lietuve,
lokomotīve,
slēptuve,
ķemme,
šķīve,
taukskābe,
jautājuma zīme,
kuģubūve,
dieve, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-Balto-Slavic *źémijāˀ, compare zem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm.
2. Compare Lithuanian žẽmė, Polish ziemia, Russian земля́ (zemljá), Persian زمین (zamin) Latin humus, Ancient Greek χθών (khthṓn). See: Polish Nouns '
ziemia', Latin Nouns '
humus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
χθών'.
Translations