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"text": "es šo grāmatu jau esmu lasījis",
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"english": "it is really a pity that it came out like that",
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"english": "he was naive, like a child",
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"english": "it was fun, like in a party",
"text": "bija jautri, kā jau viesībās",
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"english": "almost every day it rains, as if it were autumn",
"text": "gandrīz katru dienu līst, kā jau rudenī",
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"text": "viņš jau atnāca",
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"text": "es šo grāmatu jau esmu lasījis",
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"english": "they had already left the city when (their) uncle spoke again",
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"4": "already"
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"expansion": "Gothic 𐌾𐌿 (ju, “already”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "ju",
"3": "",
"4": "already"
},
"expansion": "Old High German ju (“already”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Baltic *jau, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yów, from the stem *éy (“that; he”) (whence also Latvian it, q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian jaũ (“already”), Old Prussian iau (“ever”), Old Church Slavonic уже (uže), юже (juže), Russian уже́ (užé, “already”), Gothic 𐌾𐌿 (ju, “already”), Old High German ju (“already”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "particle"
},
"expansion": "jau",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latvian",
"lang_code": "lv",
"pos": "particle",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "it is really a pity that it came out like that",
"text": "žēl jau bija, ka tā iznāca",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "that is really self-evident",
"text": "tas jau tāpat saprotams",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "it is indeed so",
"text": "tā jau ir",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "that he didn't say",
"text": "tā jau viņš neteica",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "good that was not",
"text": "labi jau tas nebija",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "that is true... (said when reluctantly agreeing)",
"text": "tā jau nu ir",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"used to reinforce the meaning of a word, phrase or sentence; really, indeed"
],
"links": [
[
"use",
"use#English"
],
[
"reinforce",
"reinforce#English"
],
[
"meaning",
"meaning#English"
],
[
"word",
"word#English"
],
[
"phrase",
"phrase#English"
],
[
"sentence",
"sentence#English"
],
[
"really",
"really"
],
[
"indeed",
"indeed"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "he was naive, like a child",
"text": "viņš bija naivs, kā jau bērns",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "it was fun, like in a party",
"text": "bija jautri, kā jau viesībās",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "almost every day it rains, as if it were autumn",
"text": "gandrīz katru dienu līst, kā jau rudenī",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"used to reinforce what is affirmed in a sentence, to give it more credibility, more generality"
],
"links": [
[
"kā",
"kā#Latvian"
],
[
"use",
"use#English"
],
[
"reinforce",
"reinforce#English"
],
[
"affirm",
"affirm#English"
],
[
"sentence",
"sentence#English"
],
[
"give",
"give#English"
],
[
"more",
"more#English"
],
[
"credibility",
"credibility#English"
],
[
"generality",
"generality#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(usually with kā) used to reinforce what is affirmed in a sentence, to give it more credibility, more generality"
],
"tags": [
"usually",
"with kā"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[jàw]"
},
{
"audio": "lv-riga-jau.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/Lv-riga-jau.ogg/Lv-riga-jau.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Lv-riga-jau.ogg"
}
],
"word": "jau"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latvian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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