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Latvian
Etymology
From locīt (past stem: locīj-) (“to bow, to bend, to inflect”) + -ums. In the grammatical sense, this term was first used in Juris Neikens in 1850.
Pronunciation
Noun
locījums m (1st declension)
- (grammar) case (inflected form of a word, used to indicate various syntactic and semantic relations)
- datīva locījums ― dative case
- locījumu galotnes ― case endings
- latviešu valodā locījumi piemīt lietvārdiem, īpašības vārdiem, vietniekvārdiem ― in Latvian, nouns, adjectives and pronouns have cases
Declension
Declension of locījums (1st declension)
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