dusa
Latvian
Dusa
Noun
dusa f (4th declension)
- (poetic) sleep (the act of sleeping)
- saldu dusu! ― sleep well! (lit. sweet sleep)
- ar gaiļa dziesmu piecēlos no dusas ― with the cock's song (= at cockcrow) I woke up from sleep
- jutos gurdens un gāju taisni klētiņā uz dusu ― I felt weary and went directly to the little barn to sleep
- (poetic) rest, piece
- mūsu paaudze dusas nezināja ― our generation knew no rest
- lieli tauriņi, kā dusas meklēdami, laižas pa stiebriem un grīšļiem ― large butterflies, as if looking for rest, fly through grass stalks and sedge leaves
- (poetic, figuratively) death
- mūža dusa ― eternal sleep (= death)
- no beigu dusas nevar modināt! ― (one) cannot wake up (someone) from the final sleep (= death)
Declension
Declension of dusa (4th declension)
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīvs) | dusa | — |
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | dusu | — |
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | dusas | — |
| dative (datīvs) | dusai | — |
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | dusu | — |
| locative (lokatīvs) | dusā | — |
| vocative (vokatīvs) | dusa | — |
Synonyms
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “dusēt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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