saprast
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sa- + prast (“to know how, to be able to”). The meaning of this word stabilized during the 19th century; before that, it could often mean the same as prast: “to know how,” “to be able to.”[1]
Verb
[edit]saprast (transitive, 1st conjugation, present saprotu, saproti, saprot, past sapratu)
- to understand (to perceive something by using concepts, notions, judgments in one's mind)
- saprast mākslas darbus ― to understand works of art
- saprast drauga pārdzīvojumus ― to understand a friend's experiences
- saprast sabiedrības attistības virzību ― to understand the development path of society
- to understand (to know, to grasp the meaning of something, what someone means)
- saprast dažus vārdus angļu valodā ― to understand a few words in English
- saprast žestu ― to understand a gesture
- Eiropa mūs nesapratīs ― Europe won't understand us
- viņš sveicināja un sacīja kaut ko, bet neviens viņa nesaprata, jo viņš nerunā latviski ― he saluted and said something, but nobody understood him, because he doesn't speak Latvian
- ar vārdu “zeme” saprotam mēs daudz ― by (lit. with) the word “earth” we understand (= mean) a lot
Conjugation
[edit]conjugation of saprast
References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “prast”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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- Latvian etymologies from LEV
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- lv:Thinking