Meaning of riet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to bark (to produce short, loud noises with the vocal organs)
   especially, transitive
2. to bark (to shoot rapidly)
   transitive
3. to bark (to talk loud, usually angrily)
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Nakts vidū suņi sāka neganti riet.”

In the middle of the night, the dogs started barking fiercely.

“Naktīs varēja dzirdēt vilkus gaudojam un lapsas rejam māju tuvumā.”

At night, one could hear the wolves wailing and the foxes barking near the house.

“Kauca lielgabali, rēja ložmetēji, mežs stenēja.”

The cannons howled, the machine guns barked, the forest groaned.

“Lizalka, mūžam ar visu neapmierināta, rēja uz cilvēkiem gluži kā suns.”

Lizalka, eternally dissatisfied with everything, barked at people just like a dog.

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