smukums
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Latvian
Etymology
From smuks (“pretty, beautiful, handsome”) + -ums.
Pronunciation
Noun
smukums m (1st declension)
- (colloquial) beauty (the state or quality of that which is pretty, beautiful)
- mūsu laikos kuģiem skursteņus būvē vairāk smukuma pēc ― in our times, chimneys are built on ships rather for beauty (= to make them more beautiful)
- “Inese gan saka, ka viņš esot jau dikti smuks”... “kāda tam smukumam šodien cena!” ― “Inese said that he is very handsome”... “(and) what price does this beauty have now!”
Declension
Declension of smukums (1st declension)
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīvs) | smukums | — |
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | smukumu | — |
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | smukuma | — |
| dative (datīvs) | smukumam | — |
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | smukumu | — |
| locative (lokatīvs) | smukumā | — |
| vocative (vokatīvs) | smukum | — |