EPISODE · Mar 15, 2010 · 16 MIN
Lithuanian Out Loud 0190 - Daug Many
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Daug Many Hi there, I'm Jack and I'm Eglė and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. Egle, welcome to the show! Hi! Where, now, where are you from? Okay, I am from Lithuania. What part? Klaipėda. Vakarų Lietuva – western Lithuania. So, you're from western Lithuania. Yes. And, what is your accent? What style of accent..? No accent! Standard? (Raminta in the background) Yes! So, Egle… Stelmužė is a village in Zarasai district, Lithuania. There is a wooden chapel built in 1650 not using saws or iron nails; it is the oldest wooden religious building in Lithuania. Stelmužė is also known for the Tower of Slaves or Vergų bokštas, a rectangular building constructed of stone and bricks, used for imprisonment of serfs. Nasty. Did you know this? No! Wow, we try to teach on every lesson a little bit about Lithuania. That's nice. History, religion, the old religion, things like this. pradėkime, let's get started On recent episodes we worked on numbering things such as three museums, trys muziejai or thirty seven dogs, trisdešimt septyni šunys. That's a lot! Yes! Today we'll go over how to say, many dogs or a lot of people. We're talking about an indefinite number of things. When you talk about indefinite numbers of things you use the plural genitive. First, some vocabulary… vocabulary – žodynas a woman moteris women moterys a sort rūšis sorts rūšys a year metai hearts širdys an insect vabzdys insects vabzdžiai a fly musė flies musės a person žmogus people žmonės water vanduo sad liūdnas / liūdna a minute minutė minutes minutės a religion religija religions religijos a face veidas faces veidai nitrate nitratas nitrates nitratai an elephant dramblys elephants drambliai a document dokumentas documents dokumentai a mosquito uodas mosquitoes uodai a question mark klaustukas question marks klaustukai a smoker rūkantysis smokers rūkantys a location vieta locations vietos a meadow pieva meadows pievos So, how long have you known Raminta? Oh, I know Raminta for…12 years. (Raminta in the background) How many? 12, because for me…it's 29… About 12 years. You've known her since you were 12 years-old or you have known her for 12 years? No, I've known her for 12 years. We met each other when we were 17 years-old. Aha, kur? (where) In high school. Where, but, where was the high school? The high school in Klaipėda. And, you didn't like her at first. Raminta? Yeah. No! I liked her. Why you say like that? Joking, joking. (Raminta in the background) What did you think about me? She was very funny; smiled a lot, and her laugh, we can hear…per visa koridoriu (through the entire corridor) She was really nice…and she is. She is, she is. Okay, so, the word for many, is daug. many daug plenty of daug a lot of daug now let's combine daug with some nouns… many colors daug spalvų many locations daug vietų many cars daug mašinų many songs daug dainų many birds daug paukščių many children daug vaikų many women daug moterų many trees daug medžių many years daug metų there are a lot of people here čia yra daug žmonių are there many books in the library? ar daug knygų bibliotėkoje? there are a lot of sad faces yra daug liūdnų veidų there are many religions in the world yra daug religijų pasaulyje in China there are many people Kinijoje yra daug žmonių are there many people in the restaurant? ar daug žmonių restorane? are there many people in the coffee shop? ar daug žmonių kavinėje? outside there are many flies lauke yra daug musių in the forest there are many mosquitoes miške yra daug uodų in the meadow there are many insects pievoje yra daug vabzdių in history there are many question marks istorijoje yra daug klaustukų in the water are a lot of nitrates vandenyje yra daug nitratų in Africa are many places where elephants live Afrikoje yra daug vietų kur gyvena drambliai there are many documents yra daug dokumentų are there a lot of smokers? ar daug yra rūkančių? there are many sorts yra daug rūšių Here are some other ways to use daug. First some vocabulary. vocabulary žodynas a lake ežeras lakes ežerai a leaf lapas leaves lapai a thing daiktas things daiktai a bird paukštis birds paukščiai a male cousin pusbrolis male cousins pusbroliai very many labai daug very many colors labai daug spalvų very many locations labai daug vietų very many cars labai daug mašinų very many lakes labai daug ežerų very many leaves labai daug lapų a lot of things labai daug daiktų very many birds labai daug paukščių very many cousins labai daug pusbrolių very many automobiles labai daug automobilių a window langas windows langai a village kaimas villages kaimai a tooth dantis teeth dantys not many, not a lot nedaug not many people, few people nedaug žmonių not a lot of colors nedaug spalvų not many locations nedaug vietų not a lot of cars nedaug mašinų not many windows nedaug langų not many villages nedaug kaimų not many teeth nedaug dantų per daug translates as too much or too many a war karas wars karai a trip kelionė trips kelionės a tree medis trees medžiai too many, too much per daug there are too many people in the restaurant restorane yra per daug žmonių there are too many people in the coffee shop kavinėje yra per daug žmonių there are too many people in the nightclub klube yra per daug žmonių too many colors per daug spalvų too many cars per daug mašinų too many trees per daug medžių too many trips per daug kelionių too many wars per daug karų daugiau translates as more a thief vagis thieves vagys a ship laivas ships laivai a suburb priemiestis suburbs priemiesčiai more daugiau more colors daugiau spalvų more locations daugiau vietų more cars daugiau mašinų more thieves daugiau vagių more students daugiau studentų more suburbs daugiau priemiesčių daug daugiau translates as many more a passenger keleivis passengers keleiviai a poem poema poems poemos a fire ugnis fires ugnys a wall siena walls sienos a dictionary žodynas dictionaries žodynai a word žodis words žodžiai a bug blakė bugs blakės a pest kenkėjas pests kenkėjai many more daug daugiau many more passengers daug daugiau keleivių many more poems daug daugiau poemų many more fires daug daugiau ugnių many more walls daug daugiau sienų many more dictionaries daug daugiau žodynų many more words daug daugiau žodžių many more pests daug daugiau kenkėjų many more bugs daug daugiau blakių truputį daugiau translates as a little more a little more flowers truputį daugiau gėlių a little more people truputį daugiau žmonių a little more women truputį daugiau moterų So, what part of Klaipėda did you grow up in? I grew up in the west...the west side of Klaipėda. Yes! Hmm, the west side, near the ocean. Near the Baltic Sea. Near the Baltic Sea. Yes. Wow, cool. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you for doing this. Thank you for you. No, you did a good job! Thank you! Šaunuoliai! Great! You made it to the end of another episode! Šaunuoliai!
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