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Sveiki! Man te uzkasījies viens korejietis, kas nodarbojas (kādā jēgā vispār?) ar latviešu valodas pētniecību. Es neesmu speciāliste valodniecības jautājumos, tādēļ gribēju vaicāt vai gudrās galvas cibiņi man varētu sniegt profesionālu palīdzību (ai mīn dažas lietas tur var jebkurš atbildēt, bet varbūt citi var labāk, kā es) :D

LŪK:

I am working on the subject-predicate agreement with the pronoun Jūs, which can refer to either a single addressee, when you show politeness due to any social context, or more than one person.

What I know is that for example, in the sentence Jūs esat augstsirdīga ‘You (one formal female addressee) are generous’, the adjective augstsirdīga is in singular but the verb esat is singular.

 

My questions are...

1. Can you say “Generous you!” or “Smart you!” like in English ‘Poor you!’?

If yes, would you give me that in Latvian?

 

My guess: Will that be, let’s say, “Augstsirdīga Jūs!” when talking to one polite addressee, as opposed to “Augstsirdīgas Jūs!” when talking to more than one?

(I am sorry but I don’t speak Latvian so it might sound totally wrong, and I don't know the conjugations of different case for adjectives. Is singular nominative form Augstsirdīgs?)

 

2.     I read somewhere that the noun ‘Sacīkstes’ is always plural and thus its adjectives have to be always plural as in Sacīkstes bija interesantas ‘The competition was interesting’ or ‘The competitions were interesting’

Do you agree with that?

So do you think that a singular adjective in Sacīkstes bija interesanta makes the sentence sound bad?

Could you think of any other words behaving like Sacīkstes (always plural)?