Hi there, this is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. Before we get on with today's episode it's time again for Agnė iš Vilniaus!

Agnė says the idea today is to repeat a sentence that has many similar hard to pronounce sounds as quickly as you can. In English these are called tongue-twisters.

Thanks for sending us this contribution Agne! It means a lot to us that you're helping us out. Take it away, Agne!

How quickly could you say that?

Geri vyrai geroj girioj gerą girą gėrė gerdami gyrė The good men in a big good forest were drinking delicious kvass (Lithuanian national drink)

Geri vyrai geroj girioj gerą girą gėrė gerdami gyrė It's easy, isn't it? But, what about that?

Šešios žąsys su šešiais žąsyčiais Six (female) geese with six goslings

Don't worry if you don't succeed the first time because most Lithuanians will say it like that…

It's okay, you need just some more practice and soon you will be able to say it like this:

Šešios žąsys su šešiais žąsyčiais Good luck!

Prašom, Mylimoji! Hi there, I'm Raminta and I'm Raminta's husband, Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. Today we're in the month of July which in Lithuanian is Liepa.

An old Lithuanian tradition says if you light anything with a candle, a sailor dies. Why? Long ago in winter months sailors didn't have much of an income and some sold matches to make ends meet. So, if you light something with a candle, you're cheating a poor sailor out of his paycheck.

Have you ever heard of this, Dear?

pradėkime, let's get started

In past episodes we practiced a lot of possession using the genitive case or kilmininkas such as the man's name, vyro vardas or the dog's water, šuns vanduo.

Today we'll tackle the genitive in the plural such as the children's dog, or a dog which belongs to many children, a children's doctor, or a doctor who treats many children, a children's book, the men's restroom, the women's team, women's health.

You'll be happy to know it's easily learned with little study. On this episode we'll focus on masculine nouns, feminine nouns on a later episode.

Masculine nouns end like this… -as changes to –ų -is changes to –ių -ys changes to –ių -us changes to –ų -ius changes to –ių and -uo changes to –enų

The most important thing to remember here is that the plural genitive always ends in -ų

Before we get started, here's some new vocabulary. prašom pakartoti…

vocabulary žodynas

when doing žodynas – once slow, once normal speed (here Raminta accidently reads episode notes not meant for the audience)

basketball krepšinis

basketball krepšinis

health sveikata

health sveikata

music muzika

the music muzika

tradition tradicija

tradition tradicija

a male doctor gydytojas

the male doctor gydytojas

a culture kultūra

the culture kultūra

hospital ligoninė

hospital ligoninė

a territory teritorija

the territory teritorija

a history istorija

the history istorija

a system sistema

a system sistema

pie pyragas

a pie pyragas

juice sultys

juice sultys

group grupė

group grupė

a school mokykla

school mokykla

director direktorius

director direktorius

association asociacija

association asociacija

exhibition paroda

exhibition paroda

food maistas

food maistas

booth kasa

booth kasa

sanctuary šventovė

sanctuary šventovė

the flu gripas

the flu gripas

Keep in mind that ų nosinė and ū ilgoji sound the same; they both have the long -oo sound. For plural genitive we use ų nosinė to be grammatically correct.

So, let's go over some examples. Don't worry about learning every word. We just want you to learn the genitive plural.

man vyras

men vyrai

a men's restroom vyrų tualetas

men's basketball vyrų krepšinis

men's health vyrų sveikata

a child vaikas

children vaikai

the children's dog vaikų šuo

a children's doctor vaikų gydytojas

a children's book vaikų knyga

a children's hospital vaikų ligoninė

an American male amerikietis

the American males amerikiečiai

the American's auto amerikiečių automobilis

the American's music amerikiečių muzika

the American's history amerikiečių istorija

a Lithuanian male lietuvis

the Lithuanians lietuviai

Lithuanian's history lietuvių istorija

Lithuanian's culture lietuvių kultūra

Lithuanian tradition lietuvių tradicija

train traukinys

trains traukiniai

trains' station or the train station traukinių stotis

train system traukinių sistema

So, we think you get the idea. Here are some more examples.

an apple obuolys

apples obuoliai

apple pie obuolių pyragas

apple juice obuolių sultys

an actor aktorius

actors aktoriai

the actors' group aktorių grupė

the actors' school aktorių mokykla

a museum muziejus

museums muziejai

the museums' director muziejų direktorius

the museums' association muziejų asociacija

a stone akmuo

the stones akmenys

the stones' location akmenų vieta

the stones' color akmenų spalva

the dog šuo

the dogs šunys

the dog exhibition šunų paroda

the dog park šunų aikštelė

automobile automobilis

automobiles automobiliai

the car club automobilų klubas

the car museum automobilų muziejus

the ticket bilietas

tickets bilietai

ticket booth bilietų kasa

ticket collector bilietų kontrolierius

ticket price bilietų kaina

bus autobusas

buses autobusai

the bus station autobusų stotis

a bird paukštis

birds paukščiai

bird sanctuary paukščių šventovė

bird flu paukščių gripas

Šaunu! Great! You made it to the end of another episode! Nuostabu! Wonderful!

Puiku! Excellent! You made it to the end of another episode! Puiku!

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