Koks Didelis Pasaulis What A Big World

(with special guest-host Antanas)

Hi there, I'm Jack and I'm Antanas and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language.

Continuing with our description of Lithuanian banknotes, the 100 litas or šimtas litų banknote is decorated with the portrait of Simonas Daukantas who lived from 1793 to 1864. Simonas wrote the first history of Lithuania in the Lithuanian language and he's credited with creating a sense of national awareness for the Lithuanian people. The reverse of the bill features Vilnius Old Town.

Banknotes of the Lithuanian Litas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_Lithuanian_litas

Very well done. This is easy. Okay. Have some beer!

Today we continue with koks – not as a question word but more as an expression of surprise or exclamation

you can use koks or kokia to say things like;

what a beautiful dog! what a tasty wine! what a big house!

Now for an important point. If you are talking about something specific you can say things like what a beautiful dog, koks gražus šuo or what a tasty wine, koks skanus vynas. But, if you're talking about something inspecific and you just want to say, how beautiful! or how tasty! then you wouldn't use koks or kokia. You'd use kaip and add the neuter form of the adjective.

How beautiful, kaip gražu, how tasty, kaip skanu.

Think of it like this. If you're going to use koks or kokia then you need to know the gender of the object. Kaip is the word for how, like, as, than, as well as some others. Kaip is genderless.

So, if you use koks or kokia which are concerned with gender, use them with masculine or feminine nouns. Kaip doesn't care about gender, so use the neuter form of the adjective.

how beautiful

kaip gražu

what a beautiful dog

koks gražus šuo

what a beautiful day

kokia graži diena

how tasty

kaip skanu

what a tasty sandwich

koks skanus sumuštinis

what a tasty pizza

kokia skani pica

pradėkime, let's get started

1) gražus or graži is an adjective that means beautiful 2) bjaurus or bjauri is an adjective that means ugly or nasty 3) didelis or didelė is an adjective that means big 4) mažas or maža is an adjective that means small 5) skanus or skani is an adjective that means tasty or delicious

Koks and kokia have the same meaning. Koks is tied to masculine nouns. Kokia is tied to feminine nouns.

The same goes for the adjectives gražus or graži, bjaurus or bjauri, didelis or didelė, skanus or skani, mažas or maža.

As you might have guessed, the adjective that ends in –s, is masculine.

So, if the noun is masculine we use the masculine adjective.

vocabulary - žodynas

weather

oras

sky or heaven

dangus

sunset

saulėlydis

pimple

spuogas

a word

žodis

war

karas

thing

daiktas

rain

lietus

creature

padaras

pest

kenkėjas

insect

vabzdys

crab

krabas

eel

ungurys

world or universe

pasaulis

spider

voras

elephant

dramblys

dictionary

žodynas

puppy

šuniukas

garden

sodas

salary

atlyginimas

computer

kompiuteris

baby

kūdikis

Oi is a word that expresses surprise, such as, oh! ah! Oi, koks gražus šuo! Oh, what a beautiful dog!

beautiful

gražus

what beautiful weather!

koks gražus oras!

what a beautiful dog!

koks gražus šuo!

what a beautiful morning!

koks gražus rytas!

what a beautiful life!

koks gražus gyvenimas!

what a beautiful evening!

koks gražus vakaras!

whoa, what a beautiful sky!

oi, koks gražus dangus!

how beautiful is Klaipėda's museum!

koks gražus yra Klaipėdos muziejus!

whoa, what a beautiful sunset!

oi, koks gražus saulėlydis!

whoa, what a beautiful car!

oi, koks gražus automobilis!

whoa, what a beautiful watch!

oi, koks gražus laikrodis!

ugly

bjaurus

what an ugly word!

koks bjaurus žodis!

whoa, what an ugly pimple!

oi, koks bjaurus spuogas!

what an ugly bird!

koks bjaurus paukštis!

what an nasty life!

koks bjaurus gyvenimas!

what an nasty war!

koks bjaurus karas!

what an ugly thing!

koks bjaurus daiktas!

what an ugly rain!

koks bjaurus lietus!

how ugly is today's weather!

koks bjaurus šiandien oras!

what an ugly creature!

koks bjaurus padaras!

what an ugly pest!

koks bjaurus kenkėjas!

what an ugly insect!

koks bjaurus vabzdys!

delicious

skanus

what a tasty beer!

koks skanus alus!

wow, how tasty is the crab!

oho, koks skanus yra krabas!

what tasty water!

koks skanus vanduo!

how tasty is Lithuanian food!

koks skanus lietuviškas maistas!

how tasty is Italian food!

koks skanus yra itališkas maistas!

whoa, how tasty is the Japanese food!

oi, koks skanus japoniškas maistas!

what a tasty pie!

koks skanus pyragas!

whoa, what a tasty eel!

oi, koks skanus ungurys!

what tasty wine!

koks skanus vynas!

big

didelis

what a big world!

koks didelis pasaulis!

what a big spider!

koks didelis voras!

what a big flat!

koks didelis butas!

what a big elephant!

koks didelis dramblys!

whoa, what a big dog!

oho, koks didelis šuo!

oh, what a big car!

oi, koks didelis automobilis!

oh, what a big house!

oi, koks didelis namas!

oh, what a big room!

oi, koks didelis kambarys!

what a big cepelinas!

koks didelis cepelinas!

small

mažas

what a small world!

koks mažas pasaulis!

what a small dog!

koks mažas šuo!

what a small dictionary!

koks mažas žodynas!

what a small puppy!

koks mažas šuniukas!

what a small room!

koks mažas kambarys!

what a small garden!

koks mažas sodas!

what a small salary!

koks mažas atlyginimas!

what a small computer!

koks mažas kompiuteris!

what a small baby!

koks mažas kūdikis!

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

Tai lengva! (That's easy!) Good job, Antanai!