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Latvian
Etymology
From pēc (“after”) + karš (“war”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pēckarš m (1st declension)
- post-war years, post-war period (time after the end of a war)
- E. Hemingvejs stāstīja par karu un pēckaru uzsvērti priekšmetiski ― E. Hemingway narrated about the war and the post-war period with an emphasis on objectivity
- man ir kādi desmit gadi, un es esmu atvests uz laukiem, piena pastrēbties; jo ir pēckarš ― I am about ten years old, and I am brought to the fields, to drink milk; because (such is) the post-war time
- Oskars iziet tomēr cauri visām Vācijas vēsturiskās attīstības fāzēm: pirmskaram, karam, pēckaram ― Oskars, however, goes through all of Germany's historical development phases: prewar, war, post-war
- (in the genitive, used adjectivally) post-war
- pirmā pēckara vasara ― the first post-war summer
- pēckara Latvija ― post-war Latvia
- pēckara apstākļi ― post-war conditions, circumstances
- pēckara grūtības ― post-war hardships
- pēckara paaudze ― post-war generation
- pirmais pēckara periods - līdz 1949. gadam - pagāja kara postījumu likvidēšana ― the first post-war period, until 1949, (was) the (time of) liquidation of the post-war devastation
Declension
Declension of pēckarš (1st declension)