Meaning of skaitīt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to count (to say the numbers in order)
   intransitive, transitive
2. to count (to establish how many objects, people, etc. there are in a given group by assigning to each of them a number in order)
   intransitive, transitive
3. to count (to measure the time from a certain event on)
   intransitive, transitive
4. to count (syllables), to scan, to recite (poetry), to pray prayer)
   intransitive, transitive
5. to recite (to speak monotonously, usually repeating the same words)
   intransitive, transitive
6. to count (something) as (something) (to consider something as part of some group; to believe something to be true, to have happened)
   intransitive, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“skaitīt līdz desmit”

to count to ten

“skaitīt uz priekšu un atpakaļ”

to count up and down

“iemacīties skaitīt”

to learn (how) to count

“sensenos laikos cilvēks partis skaitīt tikai līdz divi”

in ancient times, people could count only (up) to two

“Annele putnu gaidot skaita: divdesmit, piecdesmit, simtu, divi simti... bet debess paliek kā izmirusi”

Annele, waiting for the bird(s), counted: twenty, fifty, a hundred, two hundred... but the sky remained as if dead

“skaitīt grāmatas”

to count books

“skaitīt naudu”

to count money

“skaitīt balsis”

to count votes

“skaitīt ar pirkstiem”

to count on (one's) fingers

“skaitāmie kauliņi”

abacus (lit. countable beads)

“viņš skaitīja, cik katra loga restēm caurumiņu”

he counted how many holes (there) were on the window grill

“vecais sienas pulkstenis gurdi skaita sekundes, kas kļūst par minūtēm un stundām”

the old wall clock tiredly counts the seconds that (in turn) become minutes and hours

“agrāk šādus smilšu pulksteņus lietoja, skaitot slimnieka pulsu”

earlier they used such hourglasses (when) taking (lit. counting) a person's pulse

“Latvijā futbola sākumu skaita ar 1907. gadu, kad Rīgā organizēja pirmo futbola kolektīvu”

the beginning of soccer in Latvia is counted with (= from) 1907, when the first soccer team was organized in Riga

“vīri un sievas... klusībā skaita tēvreizi”

men and women... quietly recited the Lord's prayer

“man sarīkojumā bija jāskaita Aspazijas dzejolis”

at the party I had to recite Aspazija's poem

““nakts un tumsa... nakts un tumsa..”. viņas lūpas skaita šos divus vārdus”

“night and darkness... night and darkness..”. her lips recited these two words

“Gunta jau attin ēdamlietu saini pie galda un skaita skaļā balsī: “halva, pīrāgi, kotletes, sviests, rieksti””

Gunta unwrapped the foodstuffs on the table and recited aloud: “halva, pies, meatballs, butter, nuts”

“mani lūdzu neskaitīt līdz”

please don't count me in

“skaitīt kādu par izglītotu”

to count (= consider) someone as educated

“ja Daņilovas gravai pārbrauksim, varam skaitīt, ka esam mājās”

if (= when) we will have passed Daņilova's glen, we can count (ourselves) already at home

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