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Today we're in a new month! August was named in honor of Augustus Caesar in the year eight before the common era (8 BCE). In Lithuanian this month is rugpjūtis, named after the word for rye, rugiai and pjauti, to cut. It's rye cutting month.

Here's some food for thought. I remind people not to refer to Lithuania as a former part of the Soviet Union. Calling Lithuania a nation that was once part of the Soviet Union or as the former Soviet Republic Lithuania sounds like Lithuania and Russia went through an amical divorce. It's like saying to a Frenchman or Dutchman, hey, aren't you guys formerly part of the Nazi Empire? Nah, don't do it, it won't make you any new friends.

pradėkime, let's get started

In past episodes we practiced a lot of possession using the genitive case or kilmininkas such as the wife's name, žmonos vardas, or Eglė's husband, Eglės vyras.

Today we'll tackle the genitive in the plural such as the women's restroom, or the restroom of many women, the countries' history, as in the history of many countries, the car factory, or the factory which has many cars. You'll be happy to know it's easily learned with little study. On this episode we'll focus on feminine nouns.

feminine nouns end like this…

-a changes to –ų -ė changes to –ių -is changes to –ų -uo changes to –erų

and

-ė (as in duktė) changes to -erų

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

vocabulary - žodynas

factory gamykla

production gamyba

company kompanija

hive avilys

wax vaškas

swarm spiečius

equipment įranga

workshop dirbtuvė

association asociacija

portrait portretas

children vaikai

catalog katalogas

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 ending.

the car mašina

the cars mašinos

the car factory mašinų gamykla

the car production mašinų gamyba

the car company mašinų kompanija

a sculpture skulptūra

sculptures skulptūros

the sculpture museum skulptūrų muziejus

sculpture park skulptūrų parkas

a bee bitė

the bees bitės

the bee's hive or beehive bičių avilys

bee's wax bičių vaškas

bee's swarm bičių spiečius

the store parduotuvė

the stores parduotuvės

the stores' location parduotuvių vieta

the stores' catalog parduotuvių katalogas

woman moteris

women moterys

women's basketball moterų krepšinis

women's health moterų sveikata

women's restroom moterų tualetas

a country šalis

the countries šalys

the countries' history šalių istorija

the countries' culture šalių kultūra

the countries' territory šalių teritorija

a rowboat valtis

boats valtys

the boats' equipment valčių įranga

the boats' workshop valčių dirbtuvė

the boats' color valčių spalva

a daughter duktė

daughters dukterys

the daughters' family dukterų šeima

the daughters' portrait dukterų portretas

sister sesuo

sisters seserys

the sisters' children seserų vaikai

the sisters' portrait seserų portretas

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