centīgs
Latvian
Alternative forms
- (colloquial form) censīgs
Etymology
From censt(ies) (“to try”) + -īgs. The standard stem for this verb has š (es cenšos, “I try”), but dialectally also t (es centos), which explains why there are derived forms with t, like centīgs, centība (“zeal”), and with s, like censonis (“striver, fighter, assiduous person”) or sacensība (“competition”) (and also, coloquially, censīgs, censība).[1]
Pronunciation
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Adjective
centīgs (definite centīgais, comparative centīgāks, superlative viscentīgākais, adverb centīgi)
- diligent, zealous, hard-working (who insists on trying to do, to obtain something)
- centīgs cilvēks, strādnieks, skolēns ― diligent person, worker, student
- diligent, zealous, hard-working (which expresses the desire to keep trying to do, to obtain something)
- centīgs gars ir latvju tautai ― the Latvian people has a diligent spirit
- lapa bija aprakstīta ar centīgu, nelīdzenu rokrakstu ― the sheet of paper was all covered with zealous, uneven handwriting
Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of centīgs
masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
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singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
nominative (nominatīvs) | centīgs | centīgi | centīga | centīgas | |||||
accusative (akuzatīvs) | centīgu | centīgus | centīgu | centīgas | |||||
genitive (ģenitīvs) | centīga | centīgu | centīgas | centīgu | |||||
dative (datīvs) | centīgam | centīgiem | centīgai | centīgām | |||||
instrumental (instrumentālis) | centīgu | centīgiem | centīgu | centīgām | |||||
locative (lokatīvs) | centīgā | centīgos | centīgā | centīgās | |||||
vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “censties”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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