Lithuanian Out Loud 0020 - Vardininkas Naming Case

Raminta is in Moscow this week as a guest of the Lithuanian Embassy digging into the Russian archives for her new book.  Too bad Jack is stuck at home painting the house.  The one thing you need to take from this episode is that the nominative or naming case is called, "vardininkas" in Lithuanian.

declension = case there are seven declensions in Lithuanian naming case = nominative case vardininkas is the basic, primary name of all words vardininkas is the case used in dictionaries examples of vardininkas:

nominative case                              vardininkas

automobile                                       automobilis

rytas                                               morning

diena                                               day

vakaras                                           evening

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