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Sep. 24th, 2014|01:12 pm

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Because it is a word in its own right, and a plural word at that.

Consider:

Kalniņa kungs, Jūs esat cūka!
vs
Kalniņa kungs, Jūs esi cūka!

The second would be extremely hard on (at least my) ear, because we just were talking in plural form and we slam to the teikuma priekšmets in plural a verb in singular. Doesn't, as a rule, work in Latvian, I think.
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