The Lithuanian language has two main numbers, singular and plural. Heard, listened from audīre – to hear, listen Lithuanian grammatical genders are similar to, for instance, Latin:įrom girdė́ti – to hear (continuing, imperfective action)įrom išgir̃sti – to hear (one-time, perfective action) The masculine or feminine usage of these words is stable (with few exceptions) and doesn't depend on the will of a speaker. Note that there are many nouns that use masculine or feminine genders without any reason of biological gender, for instance, words that denote inanimate objects. The masculine as the indeterminate gender differs from the indefinite gender, which allows treatment of the word in two ways. This means that for an entire mixed group of objects belonging to masculine and feminine genders, the masculine gender is used. The masculine gender is also the indeterminate gender as in many other Indo-European languages. The nouns of the indefinite gender have feminine form inflections. The word kas uses masculine inflections, the other pronouns have their own specific paradigm. The gender of a pronoun kas – 'who? what?', personal pronouns aš / mes – 'I' / 'we', tu / jūs – 'you (singular) / you (plural)' and a reflexive pronoun savęs is indefinite, it means any of the genders. Skaityti buvo įdomu ( neuter) – Reading was interesting.Mokytojas ( masc.) bus pasirengęs ( masc.) – The teacher will be ready.Ji ( fem.) yra graži ( fem.) – She is beautiful.Since no noun can have a neutral gender, it is used with subjects of neutral or undefined gender:
Lithuanian adjectives, numerals, pronouns and participles are classified into one of three genders: Lithuanian nouns are classified into one of two genders: The following is a list of Lithuanian terms for properties and morphological categories, with their English translations or equivalents: Properties and morphological categories Grammatical terminology
1 Properties and morphological categories.
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