Lithuanian Out Loud 0033 - Vilniaus Bankas Vilnius Bank

In August of 2007, Denmark and Lithuania removed their combat troops from Iraq.  The Lithuanians were withdrawn from the southern city of Basra where they’d been under Danish command.  Over 750 Lithuanian soldiers served in Iraq and not one was killed.  Nine Lithuanian soldiers are staying in Iraq to help train Iraqi troops. Congratulations to the Lithuanian nation on the safe return of their troops.  Personally, I’m thrilled that not a single Lithuanian soldier died in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and hopefully, none will be.

We already learned how to use the genitive case or kilmininkas with feminine nouns. -a changes to –os and –ė changes to –ės. Now let’s go over masculine nouns.  Most masculine nouns end in –as, -is, -ys, and –us. Before we do the genitive examples, here are some masculine nouns in the nominative case or vardininkas. Prašom pakartoti, please repeat…

Ignas              Ignas, a man’s name, short for Ignacas Ignas   vyras              a man or a husband anglas             the Englishman brolis              a brother šalis                the country šalis                a country lietuvis            the Lithuanian male Vilnius            Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania Bronius           Bronius, a man’s name Bronius Andrius           Andrius, a man’s name, short for Andrejus Andrius           Andrejus durys              the door durys              a door Kazys             a man’s name, it’s old fashioned but recently it’s become more popular Kazys   kambarys        a room kambarys        the room Budrys            Budrys, a man’s last name Budrys bankas            the bank bankas            a bank

In the genitive case or kilmininkas, masculine nouns change like this… If they end in –as they change to –o if they end in –is or –ys they change to –io and if they end in –us they change to –aus.

So, let’s do some examples, please repeat, prašom pakartoti…

Ignas’ book Ignas changes to Igno              Igno knyga Ignas’ house                           Igno namas The man’s brother vyras changes to vyro              vyro brolis The husband’s name               vyro vardas The Englishman’s country anglas changes to anglo            anglo šalis The Englishman’s sister           anglo sesuo brother’s room  brolis changes to brolio             brolio kambarys brother’s restaurant                  brolio restoranas brother’s name                        brolio vardas the Lithuanian’s country lietuvis changes to lietuvio        lietuvio šalis the Lithuanian’s house             lietuvio namas Vilnius’ bank Vilnius changes to Vilniaus        Vilniaus bankas Vilnius’ park                            Vilniaus parkas Bronius’ name  Bronius changes to Broniuas      Broniaus vardas Bronius’ room                          Broniaus kambarys Andrius’ book Andrius changes to Andriaus       Andriaus knyga Andrius’ wife                             Andriaus žmona The room’s door kambarys changes to kambario    kambario durys The house’s door namas changes to namo              namo durys Kazys’ wife Kazys changes to Kazio              Kazio žmona Kazys’ house                             Kazio namas Budrys’ book Budrys changes to Budrio           Budrio knyga Budrys’ house                           Budrio namas

Excellent!  Now, I’d recommend you go over the genitive case lessons a few times until you’re familiar with each word’s ending.  You’ll be seeing much more of the genitive in the future.  As a matter of fact, the genitive is the most used declension in Lithuanian after the nominative declension.