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Meaning of vakariņas | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR A2 Frequent
[vakaɾiɲas]

Definitions

  1. dinner (the evening meal, usually not the largest meal in Latvia; also, the time or occasion of this meal)
    declension-4, feminine
  2. locative plural of vakariņas
    feminine, form-of, locative, plural

Equivalents

English dinner supper

Examples

“sātīgas vakariņas”

hearty dinner

“ēst vakariņas”

to eat dinner

“pacienāt ar vakariņām”

to treat (someone) to dinner

“klāt vakariņu galdu”

to set the dinner table

“lūgt vakariņās”

to invite, to call to dinner

“iet vakariņās”

to go to dinner

“pēc vakariņām”

after dinner

“lietainākā laikā Nate ātrāk ienāca istabā un vārīja vakariņas”

in rainier weather Nate came sooner to his room and cooked dinner

“pēc pusstundas viņš būs mājās... bērni jau gulēs, un sieva sildīs padzisušās vakariņas”

in half an hour he will be home... the children will be sleeping, and (his) wife will warm up (his) cold dinner

“vakariņu laikā, kad Pļavnieku saime sēdās pie galda, circeņi kļuva pavisam nebēdīgi”

during dinner, when the Pļavnieks family sat at the table, the crickets became quite lively

“vakariņās sanāca iekšā visi mājnieki un sasēdās ap galdu”

at dinner (time) all members of the household came together and sat at the table

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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