Hi there!  This is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud!  Before we start today’s episode, Agnė iš Vilniaus has something special for us.

Agnė reminded me that in Lithuanian Out Loud episode 51 a song jumped from the lips of Margarita.  This song is "Lietuva", and the music was writen by Galina Savinienė.  The words were written by Justinas Marcinkevičius a well-known Lithuanian poet.  Agnė says this song is usually sung in Lithuanian Song Festivals.

Thanks Agnė for this fabulous recording!  Spectacular!  How about a round of applause for Agnė?  Woohoo!  One last thing before we get going.  A listener named Jim is inviting listeners to join his Lithuanian practice chat room on Skype at captainjim04.  We’ll post his Skype name on this episode’s blog page entry.  Now, on with today’s episode!  Take it away, Agnė!

Tai gražiai, gražiai mane augino So beautifully, beautifully I was raised by

laukas, pieva, kelias, upė,              a field, a meadow, a road, a river,

tai gražiai už rankos vedė             so beautifully I was lead by the hand of

vasaros diena ilga.                        a long summer's day.

tai gražiai už rankos vedė so beautifully I was lead by the hand of

vasaros diena ilga.                         a long summer's day.

Tai gražiai, gražiai lingavo girios, So beautifully, beautifully forests were swinging

uogų ir gegučių pilnos,                   full of berries and cuckoos,

tai gražiai, gražiai saulutė leidos, so beautifully the sun (dim. form) was going down

atilsėlį nešdama. carrying the rest (diminutive, poetic form)

tai gražiai, gražiai saulutė leidos, so beautifully the sun (dim. form) was going down

atilsėlį nešdama. carrying the rest (diminutive, poetic form)

Tai gražiai, gražiai skambėjo žodžiai: So beautifully the words sounded:

laukas, pieva, kelias, upė.             a field, a meadow, a way, a river,

tai gražiai, gražiai iš jų išaugo       so beautifully from them

vienas žodis: L i e t u v a.               one word grew: Lithuania

tai gražiai, gražiai iš jų išaugo       so beautifully from them

vienas žodis: L i e t u v a.             one word grew: Lithuania

Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language – and we’re excited about it too!

Today we’re in a new month!  In Latin September means seven and septimus means seventh.  In Lithuanian this month is rugsėjis.  In this month we add the prefix sėti – to sow.  This time of year the grain is sown, germinates and overwinters in the field.

Acording to Wikipedia, the white stork (gandras) is usually felt to be the national bird of Lithuania. Lithuanians believe that storks bring harmony to the families on whose property they nest; they have also kept up the tradition of telling their children that storks bring babies.

Were you told that?  Yeah Did you believe it?  Yes…by the way, I saw in America, next to one house, it was a stork with babies, so I guess in America you have that tradition too. Yeah, tradition, yes, but we don’t actually tell our children this. Mhmm, but maybe some families do because it would not make sense to have a stork with babies in front of the house and not believe in that…I don’t know…

Stork Day is celebrated on March 25 with various archaic rituals: gifts for children, attributed to the storks, such as fruits, chocolates, pencils, and dyed eggs, are hung on tree branches and fences; snakes are caught, killed and buried under the doorstep; straw fires are lit. Lithuania is a beneficial and important habitat for these birds: it has the highest known nesting density in the world.

Stork Day, do you celebrate Stork Day, Dear?  No, I don’t.

The primary focus of this episode is to cover some unusual nouns that don’t follow the normal rules when they are declined.

This episode will focus on just three words.  All three are feminine.

vocabulary – žodynas

woman                       moteris

daughter                     duktė

sister                          sesuo

let’s begin by using these three words in the nominative case or vardininkas

the woman lives in Lithuania moteris gyvena Lietuvoje

the daughter lives in Lithuania       duktė gyvena Lietuvoje

the sister lives in Lithuania           sesuo gyvena Lietuvoje

and now the plural nominative

the women live in Vilnius               moterys gyvena Vilniuje

the daughters live in Vilnius           dukterys gyvena Vilniuje

the sisters live in Vilnius               seserys gyvena Vilniuje

the singular genitive

the woman’s name is Sonata         moters vardas yra Sonata

the daughter’s name is Sonata       dukters vardas yra Sonata

the sister’s name is Sonata           sesers vardas yra Sonata

the plural genitive

the womens’ family is here           moterų šeima yra čia

the daughters’ family is here         dukterų šeima yra čia

the sisters’ family is here               seserų šeima yra čia

in the accusative singular we decline these words like this

moteris changes to moterį duktė changes to dukterį sesuo changes to seserį

Valdas has a woman                     Valdas turi moterį

Valdas has a daughter                   Valdas turi dukterį

Valdas has a sister                         Valdas turi seserį

in the accusative plural we decline these words like this

women changes to moteris daughters changes to dukteris sisters changes to seseris

I look at the women                     žiūriu į moteris

I look at the daughters                 žiūriu į dukteris

I look at the sisters                       žiūriu į seseris

we’ll go over the verb žiūrėti – to look at, soon.

I have a daughter                         aš turiu dukterį

I have a sister                      aš turiu seserį

I have a woman                       aš turiu moterį

Romas has two daughters             Romas turi dvi dukteris

Romas has two sisters                     Romas turi dvi seseris

Romas has two women                   Romas turi dvi moteris

I have two daughters                      aš turiu dvi dukteris

I have two sisters aš turiu dvi seseris

I have two women                         aš turiu dvi moteris

Romas has a daughter                   Romas turi dukterį

Romas has a sister                Romas turi seserį

Romas has a woman               Romas turi moterį

here are some miscellaneous examples:

the auto killed the woman                           automobilis užmušė moterį

why is the man kissing the woman?             kodėl vyras bučiuoja moterį?

respect the woman!                                      gerbkite moterį!

he rescued the woman and the dog             jis išgelbėjo moterį ir šunį

Antanas rescued the daughter                     Antanas išgelbėjo dukterį

Naras rescued the sister                                Naras išgelbėjo seserį

Romualdas wants to have a beautiful woman Romualdas nori turėti gražią moterį

Andrius knows how to seduce a woman       Andrius žino kaip sugundyti moterį

Stanislovas understands the woman             Stanislovas supranta moterį

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

Symbols of Lithuania From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_of_Lithuania

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