EPISODE · Sep 14, 2010 · 16 MIN
Lithuanian Out Loud 0241 – Bandyti To Try
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Hi there, I'm Gintarė and I'm Jack, and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. In August of 2010, the chief of the Vilnius Mounted Police was arrested in Belarus after illegal drugs were found in his car. Chief of Police, Laimonas Bankauskas, claims the drugs were planted by the KGB in order to recruit him as a spy. Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has asked leaders in Belarus for a prompt and impartial investigation into the case. KGB Releases Lithuanian Police Officer http://democraticbelarus.eu/node/9600 today we'll go over the Lithuanian verb bandyti – to try, to try to do something bandyti requires the accusative case or galininkas nebandyti requires the genitive case here are bandyti and nebandyti conjugated in the present tense to try bandyti I try aš bandau you try (tu) tu bandai he tries jis bando she tries ji bando we try mes bandome you try (formal) jūs bandote you all try jūs bandote they try (mm/mf) jie bando they try (ff) jos bando to not try nebandyti I do not try aš nebandau you do not try (tu) tu nebandai he does not try jis nebando she does not try ji nebando we do not try mes nebandome you do not try (formal) jūs nebandote you all do not try jūs nebandote they do not try (mm/mf) jie nebando they do not try (ff) jos nebando infinitive of course, it's better to attempt it žinoma, geriau tai bandyti I think it's better to try galvoju geriau bandyti it's better to try something else geriau bandyti ką nors kita it's better not to try! geriau nebandyti! the worst is to not try blogiausia – nieko nebandyti is it better to not attempt? ar geriau nebandyti? fatal lemtingas / lemtinga it can be fatal, so it's better not to attempt it at all tai gali būti lemtingas, todėl geriau nebandyti visiškai aš I'm trying aš bandau I'm trying to remember aš bandau prisiminti I'm trying to speak with my father aš bandau kalbėti su savo tėvu I'm trying to speak Lithuanian aš bandau kalbėti lietuviškai always, continually, still vis I'm always trying to understand you aš vis bandau tave suprasti I'm trying to work at home bandau dirbti namuose I'm also trying aš taip pat bandau I'm trying to get thin aš bandau plonėti I'm not trying to thin down, I'm just not hungry aš nebandau plonėti, aš tik nealkanas I'm not trying to hide anything aš nebandau ką nors slėpti I don't try because I'm afraid nebandau, nes bijau tu are you trying to help? ar tu bandai padėti? are you trying to help me? ar tu bandai man padėti? valuable vertingas / vertinga are you trying to say that dance music is worthless? ar tu bandai pasakyti, kad šokių muzika nevertinga? are you trying to kill us? ar tu bandai mus užmušti? to distract išblaškyti are you trying to distract me? ar tu bandai mane išblaškyti? jis he is trying to call Vitalija by telephone jis bando paskambinti Vitalijai telefonu he's trying to sleep jis bando miegoti to win laimėti he's trying to win a trip jis bando laimėti kelionę to influence paveikti Andrius is trying to inluence his mother and father Andrius bando paveikti motiną ir tėvą to forget užsimiršti Antanas is trying to forget Antanas bando užsimiršti Voldemaras is not trying to do that Voldemaras nebando to daryti ji she is trying different things, for example, not eating meat ji bando įvairius dalykus, pavyzdžiui, nevalgyti mėsos she is trying to understand ji bando suprasti what is she trying to tell me? ką ji bando man pasakyti? to create kurti Viktorija is trying to create songs Viktorija bando kurti dainas she is not trying to talk with mom ji nebando pasikalbėti su mama Lina is not trying to have children Lina nebando turėti vaikų mes we are trying to create music mes bandome kurti muziką to find rasti happiness, luck, fortune laimė little by little po truputį little by little, we're trying to find happiness po truputį, mes bandome rasti laimę to circumvent, bypass, evade apeiti we're not trying to avoid problems mes nebandome apeiti problemų to change pakeisti the world pasaulis we're not trying to change the world mes nebandome pakeisti pasaulio jūs to carry out, perform, do, execute, effect atlikti and what are you trying to do? ir ką jūs bandote atlikti? to find, discover, search out surasti are you trying to find something? ar jūs bandote surasti ką nors? justice, truth teisybė you are not trying to understand the truth jūs nebandote suprasti teisybės jie to steal pavogti the till, the cash box, the cash register kasa they are trying to steal the church cash box jie bando pavogti bažnyčios kasą they try to be together jie bando būti kartu they are trying to find an answer to the question jie bando ieškoti atsakymo į klausimą they are not trying again jie nebando dar kartą jos rarely, seldom retai to combat, fight, struggle, contend kovoti an obstacle kliūtis very rarely they try to deal with obstacles labai retai jos bando kovoti su kliūtimis a cave urvas Aldona and Giedrė see a witch in the cave and they try to run away Aldona ir Giedrė mato urve ragana ir jos bando pabėgti it can't be said that they didn't try negalima sakyti, kad jos nebando to observe, follow, watch, see, supervise stebėti to change keisti however tačiau the government and the Lithuanian bank are just monitoring the situation, however, they do not attempt to change it vyriausybė ir Lietuvos bankas tik stebi situaciją, tačiau jos nebando keisti here are the imperatives try! bandyk! let's try! bandykime! try! bandykite! don't try! nebandyk! nebandyk to daryti! (don't try to do that!) let's not try! nebandykime! don't try! nebandykite! try to eat! bandyk valgyti try to work! bandyk dirbti! don't try to change me nebandyk pakeisti manęs don't try to come back nebandyk grįžti Šaunu! You made it to the end of another episode! Fainai! Cool!
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