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Prieks iepazīties A pleasure to meet you (Audio 1: 9)
Peteris Prieditis is at a reception with his wife Anda when they meet a colleague of Peteris.
JĀnis
Sveiks, Pēter, kā iet?
PĒteris
Sveiks, Jāni! Paldies, labi, un tev?
JĀnis
Arī labi, paldies.
PĒteris
Te ir mana sieva Anda.
Anda
Labdien!
JĀnis
Labdien! Prieks iepazīties.
Anda
Man arī.
Janis
Hello, Peter, how are you?
Peteris
Hello, Janis, [I’m] well, and you?
Janis
[I’m] well too, thanks.
Peteris
This is my wife Anda.
Anda
Good day!
Janis
Good day! A pleasure to meet you.
Anda
Me too.
Vocabulary
sveiks
hello, hi
kā
how
iet
to go; goes
paldies
thanks
labi
well
un
and
tev
to/for you
arī
also, too
te
here, this
ir
is
mana (fem.)
my
sieva
wife
labdien
good day
prieks
pleasure
iepazīties
to get to know
Language point
Gender
All nouns, names and adjectives in Latvian are declined according to gender. They may be masculine (masc.) or feminine (fem.). You can usually tell easily whether a Latvian noun is masculine or feminine. The masculine ending for nouns is nearly always -s or -is, and the feminine is mostly -a or -e in the basic form, as given in the vocabulary lists and the glossary. (Gender will not be shown in these lists unless the word is an exception to this rule.)
Note that gender endings apply to names as well. Pēteris Priedītis is masculine, and his wife is Anda Priedīte: even the ending of her surname is feminine. As a cultural point, Latvian women born outside Latvia often use the masculine ending of their surname, partly following the conventions of their parents and grandparents as the use of the feminine ending was not universal in the interwar years, and partly because this was the name registered on their birth certificates.
