Latvian Grammar

The Latvian grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Latvian and help connect words or shape the structure. We start with the prepositions:

And: un	Under: zem
Before: pirms	After: pēc
Inside: iekšpusē	Outside: ārpus
With: ar	But: bet
For: par, priekš	From: no
To: līdz	In: iekšā

Questions and Adverbs

To ask questions, use the following:

What?: ko? (kas?)	Who?: kurš?
How?: kā?	Why?: kāpēc?
Where?: kur?

Some of the most important time adverbs:

Never: nekad	Rarely: reti
Sometimes: dažreiz	Usually: parasti
Always: vienmēr	Very: ļoti

Most commonly used pronouns in Latvian:

I: es	You: tu/jūs
He: viņš	She: viņa
We: mēs	They: viņi /viņas//tie/tās

To express the possession of something [possessive form]:

My: mans /mana/mani/manas	Your: tavs/tava/tavi/tavas//jūsu
His: viņa	Her: viņas
Our: mūsu	Their: viņu /to

Grammar in a sentence

Some random verbs to show how it's being used:

I speak English: es runāju angliski

You speak French: tu runā franču valodā

He speaks German: viņš runā vāciski

She speaks Italian: viņa runā itāliski

I visited France: es esmu bijis (bijusi) francijā

I will drink milk: es dzeršu pienu

Some extra grammatical structures:

I understand you: es tevi saprotu

I don't understand you: es tevi nesaprotu

I don't speak French: es nerunāju franču valodā

This is my house: šī ir mana māja

That restaurant is far: šis restorāns ir tālu

No problem: nav problēmu

The above Latvian grammar can provide tools to use in coordination with the Latvian vocabulary to obtain some popular Latvian phrases.