smukums
Latvian
Etymology
From smuks (“pretty, beautiful, handsome”) + -ums.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [smukums]
Noun
smukums m (1st declension)
- (colloquial) beauty (the state or quality of that which is pretty, beautiful)
- mūsu laikos kuģiem skursteņus būvē vairāk smukuma pēc ― in our times, chimneys are built on ships rather for beauty (= to make them more beautiful)
- “Inese gan saka, ka viņš esot jau dikti smuks”... “kāda tam smukumam šodien cena!” ― “Inese said that he is very handsome”... “(and) what price does this beauty have now!”
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | smukums | — |
| genitive | smukuma | — |
| dative | smukumam | — |
| accusative | smukumu | — |
| instrumental | smukumu | — |
| locative | smukumā | — |
| vocative | smukum | — |