14 November 2013 by Pigmalijonas
There are four accentual paradigms of nouns, adjectives and other declinable parts of speech.
The second paradigm makes a word often be stressed in the stem, but in some cases in the ending too:
batas (shoe)
bato
batui
batą
batu
bate
bate!
batai (shoes)
batų
batams
batus
batams
batuose
batai!
Various declensions of nouns and adjectives have the ending stress in different cases. However, singular instrumental and plural accusative are always stressed in the ending (excluding nouns ending in -us).
tėtis (a dad) tėčiai (dads) |
Kanada Kanados |
Dovilė Dovilės |
skaičius (a number) skaičiai (numbers) |
medinis (wooden sg m) mediniai (wooden pl m) |
Comments:
Same rule for the accusative plural. All possible endings here are short, -us, -as -es. That's why the stress movement is triggered there but not in the other plural cases because they all how long endings.
Remembering this simple rule makes this accent class really easy :)
Add Comment