Lithuanian Grammar - Properties and Morphological Categories

Properties and Morphological Categories

There are seven main cases – liñksniai:
vardininkas
kilmininkas
naudininkas
galininkas
įnagininkas
vietininkas
šauksmininkas
nominative
genitive
dative
accusative
instrumental
locative (inessive)
vocative
the additional locative cases are:
iliatyvas
aliatyvas
adesyvas
illative
allative
adessive
Numbers – skaĩčiai:
vienaskaita
daugiskaita
singular number
plural
Degrees of comparison – láipsniai:
nelyginamasis
aukštesnysis
aukščiausiasis
absolute
comparative
superlative
Genders – gìminės:
vyriškoji
moteriškoji
bevardė
masculine
feminine
neuter
Tenses – laikaĩ:
esamasis
būtasis kartinis
būtasis dažninis
būsimasis
present
past
past iterative
future
Moods – núosakos:
tiesioginė
tariamoji
liepiamoji
indicative
subjunctive
imperative
Voices – rū́šys:
veikiamoji
neveikiamoji
active
passive
Aspects – veikslaĩ:
įvykio
eigos
perfective
continuous, progressive

Parts of speech – kalbõs dãlys:

Daiktavardis Noun Dalelytė Particle
Būdvardis Adjective Prielinksnis Preposition
Veiksmažodis Verb Jungtukas Conjunction
Skaitvardis Numeral Jaustukas Interjection
Įvardis Pronoun Ištiktukas Verbal interjection
Prieveiksmis Adverb

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