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.
| Latvian | English | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| acs | eye | 3781 |
| nakts | night | 3391 |
| durvis | doors | 2662 |
| sirds | heart | 2256 |
| valsts | country | 1949 |
| asinis | blood | 1376 |
| uguns | fire | 1079 |
| balss | voice | 1020 |
| debesis | sky | 998 |
| zivs | fish | 942 |
| auss | ear | 603 |
| krūts | boob | 540 |
| kārts | card | 350 |
| brokastis | breakfast | 322 |
| pils | castle | 291 |
| klints | cliff | 254 |
| smiltis | sand | 235 |
| cilts | tribe | 212 |
| vēsts | notice | 173 |
| telts | tent | 162 |
| govs | cow | 129 |
| krāsns | oven | 113 |
| zoss | goose | 99 |
| ass | axis | 95 |
| uts | lice | 73 |
| nots | note | 46 |
| kvīts | reciept | 45 |
| kūts | barn | 41 |
| plīts | stove | 31 |
| maksts | 29 | |
| nāsis | 20 | |
| pirts | 18 | |
| takts | 17 | |
| blakts | 17 | |
| klēts | 17 | |
| dzirksts | 16 | |
| rūts | 15 | |
| pāksts | 12 | |
| skrots | 11 | |
| grunts | 9 | |
| drāts | 9 | |
| žults | 8 | |
| šalts | 7 | |
| dakts | 6 | |
| vāts | 4 | |
| pults | 4 | |
| ģikts | 3 | |
| birzs | 3 | |
| izkapts | 2 | |
| olekts | 1 | |
| lecekts | 1 | |
| bārksts | 1 | |
| tāss | 1 | |
| versts | 0 | |
| vakts | 0 | |
| spīts | 0 | |
| laputs | 0 | |
| dūksts | 0 | |
| ilkss | 0 | |
| igvāts | 0 | |
| nīts | 0 | |
| bikts | 0 | |
| ģints | 0 | |
| palts | 0 | |
| krants | 0 |
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