Lithuanian Out Loud 0056 - Konstitucijos Prospektas Constitution Avenue

Author: Jack Armstrong
Published: Mon 03 Mar 2008
Episode Link: https://lithuanian.libsyn.com/lithuanian_out_loud_0056_beg_konstitucijos_prospektas_constitution_avenue

Hi there, I’m Jack. Hi there I’m Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. We’re not teachers, but we do the best we can.

What do you think about that? It’s good to try to do the best, I think!

Recently, we talked about Saulė, the Lithuanian sun goddess of life, nature and fertility. You might be surprised to know her most sacred animal is žaltys, a small harmless green grass snake. The Lithuanian word for green is žalias. So, žalias – green, žaltys – green grass snake.

The žaltys spirit lives by the stove but to ensure fertility and wealth for the family a living žaltys snake was kept in a special corner of the home and at times the entire family would not only recite prayers to it, they would invite the green grass snake to share a meal at the dinner table.

That would be a lot of fun!

Elena Bradūnas has written a wonderful story for the magazine Lituanus named, If You Kill A Snake – The Sun Will Cry. You can find a link to the article on the Lithuanian Out Loud blogpage. According to the article, written in 1975, Elena states, “to this day in Lithuania, the gabled roofs are occasionally topped with serpent-shaped carvings in order to protect the household from evil powers.”

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Since we touched on it in the last lesson, let‘s work some more on naming things. It‘s fairly simple and you‘ve already seen it. We just use kilmininkas or the genitive case. This is all simple stuff assuming you‘ve studied lessons 0022, 0030, 0031, 0033, 0037, and 0039 on kilmininkas.

Here‘s some new vocabulary for you. First, let’s go over the words in vardininkas or the naming case.

Kaip pasakyti lietuviškai? How do you say it in Lithuanian?

an avenue prospektas

the avenue prospektas

a bridge tiltas

the bridge tiltas

the constitution konstitucija

a constitution konstitucija

freedom laisvė

Europe Europa

the townhall rotušė

a townhall rotušė

art dailė

fine art dailė

the museum muziejus

a museum muziejus

Now we’ll name things using kilmininkas or the genitive case, for example, what’s the name of the street? It’s name is University Street. What’s the name of the park? It’s named Europe Park.

In the following examples we’ll give the streets, the squares, the avenues, the parks and the museums names. These are all real locations in Vilnius, Lithuania.

please repeat prašom pakartoti

University Street Universiteto gatvė

Tower Street Bokšto gatvė

Castle Street Pilies gatvė

Bridge Street Tilto gatvė

Vilnius Street Vilniaus gatvė

Townhall Square Rotušės aikštė

Cathedral Square Katedros aikštė

Vilnius Square Vilniaus aikštė

Europe Square Europos aikštė

Gediminas Avenue Gedimino prospektas

Constitution Avenue Konstitucijos prospektas

Vytautas Avenue Vytauto prospektas

Freedom Avenue Laisvės prospektas

Bend Park Vingio parkas

Europe Park Europos parkas

The Amber Museum Gintaro muziejus

Amber Museum Gintaro muziejus

The Castle Museum Pilies muziejus

Castle Museum Pilies muziejus

The Art Museum Dailės muziejus

Art Museum Dailės muziejus

Castle Bridge Pilies tiltas

So, we started with vardininkas, changed to kilmininkas in order to name things, and now let‘s change all these examples to galininkas or the accusative declension using į, or to, but first let‘s learn three more conjugations of the verb važiuoti.

we‘re going mes važiuojame

they’re going (males only or male/female group) jie važiuoja

they’re going (females only) jos važiuoja

Now for something challenging. We‘ll say a destination in English and we‘ll say, mes, jie or jos. You conjugate the verb and decline the destination and say the sentence in Lithuanian. For example, we‘ll say, “University Street – mes.“

Your response should be, “Mes važiuojame į Universiteto gatvę.“ We‘re going to University Street.

Just a reminder - when you use the verb važiuoti, you’re saying, to go, to drive, or to ride, using a car, a bus, a train, a bicycle, whatever. You’re not talking about walking.

sėkmės! good luck!

University Street (mes) mes važiuojame į Universiteto gatvę

Tower Street (mes) mes važiuojame į Bokšto gatvę

Castle Street (mes) mes važiuojame į Pilies gatvę

Bridge Street (mes) mes važiuojame į Tilto gatvę

Vilnius Street (mes) mes važiuojame į Vilniaus gatvę

Townhall Square (jie) jie važiuoja į Rotušės aikštę

Cathedral Square (jie) jie važiuoja į Katedros aikštę

Vilnius Square (jie) jie važiuoja į Vilniaus aikštę

Europe Square (jie) jie važiuoja į Europos aikštę

Gediminas Avenue (jie) jie važiuoja į Gedimino prospektą

Constitution Avenue (jos) jos važiuoja į Konstitucijos prospektą

Vytautas Avenue (jos) jos važiuoja į Vytauto prospektą

Freedom Avenue (jos) jos važiuoja į Laisvės prospektą

Bend Park (jos) jos važiuoja į Vingio parką

Europe Park (jos) jos važiuoja į Europos parką

Amber Museum (jos) jos važiuoja į Gintaro muziejų

Amber Museum (aš) aš važiuoju į Gintaro muziejų

Castle Museum (aš) aš važiuoju į Pilies muziejų

Art Museum (aš) aš važiuoju į Dailės muziejų

Sveikinu laimėjus! Congratulations on making it through another episode! Sveikinu laimėjus!

If you kill a snake, the sun will cry http://www.lituanus.org/1975/75_1_01.htm

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I’m Jack and I’ve never met a Lithuanian I didn’t like. Viso gero! Sudie!

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Lithuanian Out Loud 0056 - Konstitucijos Prospektas Constitution Avenue