Tue, 13 March 2012
LL0270 – plural instrumental inagininkas part three photograph: The port of Klaipėda, Lithuania photographer: Žiedas (Wikipedia) Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Gintarė and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. A bizarre story out of Lithuania concerns a man named Drąsius Kedys of Kaunas, Lithuania. Mr. Kedys allegedly murdered Lithuanian District Court Judge Jonas Furmanavičius and a few hours later, the sister of his ex-girlfriend, Violeta Naruševičienė. Police said that possible motives for the murders were either a bitter three-year-long custody fight or the claims by Drąsius Kedys that Judge Jonas Furmanavičius and other men raped his young daughter. Drąsius Kedys had become a Lithuanian folk hero for taking the law into his own hands and murdering two people. Street demonstrations were held and mugs and t-shirts supporting Drąsius were sold all over Lithuania. His body was found in a Kaunas reservoir in April 2010. Killer of judge, woman in Kaunas remains at large http://balticreports.com/?p=2444 Drąsius Kedys found dead in Kaunas http://balticreports.com/?p=15414 In the last episode we went over the plural instrumental case or įnagininkas. Today, we'll go over some more examples using the plural instrumental case used in different ways. Let’s start with the days of the week. Just a quick review, here are the days of the week in vardininkas Monday pirmadienis Tuesday antradienis Wednesday trečiadienis Thursday ketvirtadienis Friday penktadienis Saturday šeštadienis Sunday sekmadienis if you want to say something happens on a particular day of the week, you have to use the accusative singular I work on Monday aš dirbu pirmadienį on Tuesday began a new strike antradienį prasidėjo naujas streikas on Wednesday lightning set fire to two buildings Antradienį žaibai padegė du pastatus live jazz this Thursday! džiazas gyvai šį ketvirtadienį! on Friday you can dance penktadienį tu gali šokti why do we celebrate on Sunday rather than Saturday? kodėl mes švenčiame sekmadienį, o ne šeštadienį? if you want to say something happens every Monday or every Tuesday, you use the instrumental plural the lessons take place on Mondays pamokos vyksta pirmadieniais selections will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays atrankos vyks antradieniais ir ketvirtadieniais in December we will work on Wednesdays Gruodžio mėnesį dirbsime trečiadieniais Salsa-mania happens on Fridays Salsamanija vyksta penktadieniais court is closed on Saturdays teismas šeštadieniais nedirba Julė works not only weekdays, but Sundays Julė dirba ne tik darbo dienomis, bet ir sekmadieniais if you’re talking about something that happens during a single day, you use the singular accusative diena changes to dieną during the day dieną I work all day dirbu visą dieną the judge sleeps all day teisėjas visą dieną miega in Kaunas it snowed all day Kaune snigo visą dieną what do you do every day? ką darote kiekvieną dieną? let’s say you want to describe something that happens during the day, every day here we’d use the instrumental plural of the word for day dienomis by days dienomis during the days dienomis during holidays švenčių dienomis work time darbo laikas work days darbo dienomis I work on weekdays dirbu darbo dienomis I sleep on holidays miegu švenčių dienomis working time on holidays darbo laikas švenčių dienomis open hours on holidays darbo laikas švenčių dienomis on weekends and holidays I don't work savaitgaliais ir švenčių dienomis nedirbu evenings or weekends go to the theater vakarais arba savaitgaliais eik i kiną now let’s describe something that happens in the evening evening vakaras evenings vakarai in the evening vakare this evening šiandien vakare tomorrow evening rytoj vakare Dear, maybe we can go tomorrow evening? Brangioji, gal nueikime rytoj vakare? I had a flight this evening to Frankfurt aš turėjau skristi šiandien vakare į Frankfurtą I’ll be back in the evening aš sugrįšiu vakare in the evening we will all be in Lithuania vakare mes visi būsime Lietuvoje I will leave tomorrow evening or Friday morning aš išvyksiu rytoj vakare arba penktadienio rytą in order to express something that happens in the evenings, we use the plural instrumental in the evenings vakarais I can watch your children in the evenings galiu prižiurėti jūsų vaikus vakarais mosquitoes buzz in the evenings uodai zyzia vakarais what to do on long Autumn evenings? ką veikti ilgais rudens vakarais? the word for morning, as you already know, is rytas morning rytas mornings rytai in the morning rytą in the mornings rytais what do you do in the mornings? ką tu darai, rytais? I need help in the mornings man reikia pagalbos rytais it’s very cold in the mornings labai šalta rytais I’m alone in the mornings aš vienas rytais we can also use the plural instrumental to describe things during the seasons of the year summer vasara in summer vasarą in summers vasaromis he with his family lived in Kaunas in the summers jis su šeima gyveno Kaune vasaromis our summers often lack moisture mūsų vasaromis dažnai trūksta drėgmės spring pavasaris in spring pavasarį in the springs pavasariais to bloom žydėti our flowers bloom in the springs mūsų gėlės žydi pavasariais winter žiema in winter žiemą in the winters žiemomis why do bears sleep in the winters? kodėl meškos žiemomis miega? in the cold winters bees eat more honey šaltomis žiemomis bitės daugiau suvalgo medaus autumn ruduo in the autumn rudenį in the autumns rudeniais to pick up rinkti In the autumns I want to go pick mushrooms Visais rydeniais aš noriu eiti rinkti grybų on the next episode we'll continue using the instrumental in different ways see you then! Šaunu, you made it to the end of another episode! Turėtum jaustis kaip ant sparnų! You should feel like you're on wings!
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