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From:[info]hedera
Date:February 3rd, 2023 - 11:40 am
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The plural indefinite article in English is "some". ;)
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From:[info]brookings
Date:February 3rd, 2023 - 11:45 am
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girls are bigger than others

True. But you could say 'some breakfast' or 'some breakfasts', right?

What would be the equivalent in Latvian?

kaadas brokastis?


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From:[info]hedera
Date:February 3rd, 2023 - 11:53 am
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Latviešu valodā nav artikulu, tādēļ tiešu ekvivalentu ne vienmēr var atrast. Var skatīties, kuri vārdi latviski izpilda to pašu gramatisko uzdevumu, kuru angliski pilda artikuli. 'some breakfasts' - dažas brokastis. Taču latviski parasti neteiks: "dažas brokastis es izlaižu" vai "dažas brokastis es ieturu verandā" - tas ir gramatiski pareizi, bet nav labskanīgi. Tā vietā izmantos "dažreiz".
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From:[info]brookings
Date:February 3rd, 2023 - 12:02 pm
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You have determiners, though. So a determiner would be a, an, the, this, that, each, any, my, your, and so on.

I was - I think - using the plural of these determiners 'dažas' (for more than one) vai 'kadas' (more than one) vai 'šīs brokastis' (for one - though I know it is 'these') in my English Latvian, as that is what we say.

I had said 'viens brokasts', and someone pulled me up on it - that's when this 'plural one' hit me. I had been avoiding it without thinking about it.