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Here is a list of the most popular 3rd (III) declension Latvian nouns.

The 3rd declensions nouns are masculine and end in -us in their dictionary form.

It is the least used declension in Latvian. This is why this list is so short.

Some male names in Latvian are 3rd declension nouns.

Here is the complete list of the 6th (VI) declension Latvian nouns.

Most nouns in Latvians that end in -s are masculine and belong to the I, II or III declension. Here are nouns that end in -s but are feminine.

There’s not so many of them and you need to learn just a few.

It is the second least used declension in Latvian.

Most nouns in this table are in their dictionary form. Those that end in -is are more commonly used in the plural form.

This is how I came up with this list

• I analyzed over 1000 movie subtitles in Latvian
• I used automatic language analysis tools (part-of-speech tagging)
• I then verified the list manually
• Derived words ar not included in this list (i.e. zivs, zivs, haizivs => zivs with a frequency of 3)
• If a noun is used more commonly in the plural, I’ve listed the plural form
• A frequency of 0 means it’s in the dictionary but was never used in the subtitles

When someone says their name, do you immediately know how to spell it?

Latvians do. Because we force everyone to latvianize their names.

What we do is take your name, listen to how you say it and then write it down using our alphabet and add an -s, -a or -e at the end.

For more background read this fantastic article: Why You Will Almost Definitely Have to Change Your Name When Speaking Latvian

Here is a list of some common names and how they are latvianized.

Can’t find your name? Not sure how it’s latvianized? Contact me and I will tell you!

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