Talk:Latvian declension

message: OK, so..
*there are seven cases in the Latvian language, please attribute sources for claims of existence of 8.
*there are 6 patterns of declining nound/adjectives in the Latvian language, not 7.
*there is no dual number in the Latvian language.
um yea you could split the article just as well, the above mentioned claims would be just in place in a separate article like Old Latvian for instance. 354d 00:05, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The above claims are actually true, perhaps it needs a more general template than the  template? Okyea 03:25, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just check the article on English declension and it's all neatly structured - no one's trying to pass ēow / ēowiċ for a regular modern English pronoun, so I think what tis article lacks is a wikification template! (and probably wikification :)) Okyea 03:32, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual accuracy 

message: OK, now I'm at Latvian_declension#Palatalization, frankly I do not know what to do with the claim that plural endings append a j after the consonant. people in other countries might not be familiar with j denoting palatalization in Latvian netspeak what if they perceive j as džej? And the article needs references like really bad. there are some fifteen  templates. Latvian_declension#Dual_number and Latvian_declension#Locative_case_forms probably need a complete rewrite. Okyea 07:45, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  some rampant [[national romanticism]] eh!? 

message: Hi, i am a Spanish speaker but I am going to do my best to explain my point in English. When I lived in Latvia, they explain me that in Latvian names are "Latviantized" (Bill Clinton in Latvian changes to "Bils Klintons", and so on). By this way, all names will end in latvian endins (-s or -š, -is, -us, -a, -e and -s) and they will be able to be declined. However, names that end in -o are not "Latviantized", they are undeclined and the meaning into each sentence is given by the context. Even in Latvian there is a name that ends in -o: Oto. If the name Oto is "declined" we have:
Case..	Declension.. Example
#Nom.	Oto  →  Oto ir vīrietis (Oto is a man); Oto ir Rīgā (Oto is in Riga)
#Gen.	Oto  →  Oto māsa (The Oto´s sister);
#Dat.	Oto  →  Oto ir nauda (Oto has money, not "Oto is money")
#Acc.	Oto  →  uz Oto (to Oto)
#Ins.	Oto  →  Viņš ir ar Oto (He is with Oto)
#Loc.	Oto  →  Oto (in Oto)
#Voc.	Oto  →  Oto! (Oto!)
The context gives us the meaning.
Do not we have to add in the article how to decline "the 7th ending" -o? Or latvian grammars do not accept it?--Pulkstenis (talk) 04:55, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If you want, you can add those details to the existing section Latvian declension#Indeclinable nouns. CapnPrep (talk) 17:07, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "7th ending": Names that end in '''-o'''? 

message: This article doesn't make it very clear. Is there a neuter gender in Latvian or is it just masculine and feminine? 86.23.40.218 (talk) 23:55, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "Latvian has two grammatical genders, masculine and feminine." The very first sentence of the article, after the lead. CapnPrep (talk) 02:41, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Neuter Gender

message: The table has a curious asymmetry: the first- and second-person forms given as "genitive", mans and tavs, aren't really genitive forms of the pronouns (these would be manis and tevis, not mentioned in the table), but independent adjectival possessive pronouns. A third pronoun, the reflexive sevs, does have the correct genitive form listed -- sevis -- but now the adjectival possessive form savs is left out. Would someone care to change the table so that both the genitives and the adjectival modifying possessives are mentioned? --Pereru (talk) 20:13, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronominal declension