polisks

Latvian

Etymology

From polis (“Pole”) +‎ -isks.

Adjective

polisks (definite poliskais, comparative poliskāks, superlative vispoliskākais, adverb poliski)

  1. Polish (relating to the Polish language; relating to Poles or to Poland)
    polisks ornaments ― Polish ornament
    poliska izruna ― Polish pronunciation, accent
    tad nāca slaveno futbolistu sērija, kuriem bija poliska izcelsme ― then came a series of famous soccer players who had Polish origins

Usage notes

English “Polish” as an attributive adjective usually correponds in Latvian to poļu, the genitive plural form of polis. The adjective polisks is commonly used as a predicate (“this is Polish”), or in its adverbial form poliski.

Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of polisks
masculine (vīriešu dzimte) feminine (sieviešu dzimte)
singular
(vienskaitlis)		 plural
(daudzskaitlis)		 singular
(vienskaitlis)		 plural
(daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) polisks poliski poliska poliskas
accusative (akuzatīvs) polisku poliskus polisku poliskas
genitive (ģenitīvs) poliska polisku poliskas polisku
dative (datīvs) poliskam poliskiem poliskai poliskām
instrumental (instrumentālis) polisku poliskiem polisku poliskām
locative (lokatīvs) poliskā poliskos poliskā poliskās
vocative (vokatīvs) — — — —
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.