Lithuanian greetings depending on daytime: labas rytas (good morning), laba diena (good afternoon), labas vakaras (good evening).

Vowels

We will start exploring the alphabet by looking at the vowels.

Here are the Lithuanian vowels from the alphabet:

A Ą E Ę Ė I Į Y O U Ų Ū

Vowels A, E and O can be either short or long. At first, you will not be able to say which A, E and O are long and which are short.

However the nasal vowels Ą, Ę, Į, and Ų are always long, so you will not have doubts about them. Have in mind that the nasal vowels are not pronounced through the nose. They only mean a long vowel.

Vowel I is a short vowel, whereas Y is long.

Vowel U is a short vowel, whereas Ū is long.

A very important thing to know is that the letter i means a softening vowel. We will talk about it in the next lesson.

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