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Meaning of vecene | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR C2 Standard

Definitions

  1. old woman; also ugly, evil woman
    declension-5, feminine, masculine
  2. locative singular of vecene
    feminine, form-of, locative, singular
  3. wife
    colloquial, declension-5, feminine, masculine

Equivalents

English old woman

Examples

“runīga vecene”

talkative old woman

“dullā vecene!”

(you) crazy old woman!

“liela, līka, sirma vecene patlaban trieca Bites lopus laukā no Brīviņu pļavas”

a big, curved, gray-haired old woman has just chased Bite's cattle from the Briviņi meadows to the field

“tik tīrīga sievišķa kā mana vecene tu tāpat neatradīsi”

so neat and feminine (a woman) as my wife you just will not find

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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