raudāt

See also: raudat

Latvian

Etymology

Originally the iterative form of an unattested verb *raust, from *raud-ti, from Proto-Baltic *raud-, from Proto-Indo-European *rowd-, *HrewdH-, from an onomatopoeic (imitative) stem *rew- (“crying sound”) with an extra element -d. Cognates include Lithuanian raudóti (“to cry loud; to mourn”), Old Church Slavonic рыдати (rydati, “to cry loud”), Russian рыда́ть (rydátʹ), Belarusian рыда́ць (rydácʹ), Ukrainian рида́ти (rydáty), Bulgarian рида́я (ridája), Czech rydati, ruditi (“to make sad, to sadden”), Old High German riozan (“to cry”), Sanskrit रोदिति (róditi), Bengali রোদন (to cry), Latin rūdere (“to shout, to scream, to wail”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɾaûdât]

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Verb

raudāt (intransitive, 3rd conjugation, irregular, present raudu, raudi, raud, past raudāju)

to weep, to cry (to shed tears, often while breathing unevenly (sobbing) and producing inarticulate sounds, because of one's emotional state)
raudāt aiz bēdām ― to cry in grief, sadness

raudāt aiz prieka ― to weep with joy

raudāt sāpēs ― to cry in pain

skaļi, žēli raudāt ― to cry loud, mournfully

klusi raudāt ― to cry softly

raudāt balsī ― to cry loud (lit. in voice)

raudāt rūgtas, gaužas asaras ― to cry bitter tears

nelaimīgs ir cilvēks, kuram daudz jāraud; vēl nelaimīgāks tas, kuram neviens pārdzīvojums nav gana dziļš, lai izraisītu asaras ― unhappy is the person who has to cry a lot; even unhappier is (the person) who never had a life experience deep enough to cause tears
(of objects) to drip, to let liquid drops fall
lāsteka raud un raudot aug garumā ― the icicle cries, and crying it grows in length

no debesīm vienmuļi krita pelēkas asaras, un raudāja māju jumti, un raudāja koki ― from the sky gray tears (= raindrops) fell, and the house roofs cried, and the trees cried
(in the 3rd person; of certain animals) to cry (to produce long, low-pitched sounds)
raud vālodze naktī, kā sērdiene māsa ― the oriole cries at night, like an orphan sister
(figuratively) to make crying-like sounds
un ieklausos: aiz loga vēji raud ― and I listen: behind the window (i.e., outside) the winds cry
(figuratively, of musical instruments) to make sad, melancholic sounds, music
Vitens iegulās gultā un paņēma vijoli; klusām tā raudāja viņa rokā ― Vitens lay down in bed and took his violin; it cried softly in his hand(s)

Conjugation

conjugation of raudāt

	INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme)				IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme)
		Present (tagadne)	Past (pagātne)	Future (nākotne)	IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme)
1st pers. sg.	es	raudu	raudāju	raudāšu	—
2nd pers. sg.	tu	raudi	raudāji	raudāsi	raudi
3rd pers. sg.	viņš, viņa	raud	raudāja	raudās	lai raud
1st pers. pl.	mēs	raudam	raudājām	raudāsim	raudāsim
2nd pers. pl.	jūs	raudat	raudājāt	raudāsiet, raudāsit	raudiet
3rd pers. pl.	viņi, viņas	raud	raudāja	raudās	lai raud

RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme)			PARTICIPLES (divdabji)
Present	raudot		Present Active 1 (Adj.)		raudošs
Past	esot raudājis		Present Active 2 (Adv.)		raudādams
Future	raudāšot		Present Active 3 (Adv.)		raudot
Imperative	lai raudot		Present Active 4 (Obj.)		raudam
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme)			Past Active		raudājis
Present	raudātu		Present Passive		raudams
Past	būtu raudājis		Past Passive		raudāts
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme)			NOMINAL FORMS
Indicative	(būt) jāraud		Infinitive (nenoteiksme)		raudāt
Conjunctive 1	esot jāraud		Negative Infinitive		neraudāt
Conjunctive 2	jāraudot		Verbal noun		raudāšana

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

other derived terms:

References

^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “raudāt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎^[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

[1] Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “raudāt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎^[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

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