Japāna

See also: japana, Japana, Japána, Japānā, and japāņa

Latvian
Japāna (Āzijā)
Japānas karogs

Etymology

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Malay Japan, itself a borrowing from Min Nan 日本 (Ji̍t-pún), literally “sunrise” (the same meaning of Japanese 日本 (Nip-pon)), made, like most other country names, into a feminine 4th-declension noun.

Pronunciation
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Proper noun

Japāna f (4th declension)

  1. Japan (an island country in the Far East region of Asia, with Tokyo as its capital)
    Japānas karogs ― the flag of Japan
    Japānas vēsture ― the history of Japan
    Japāna ir unitāra konstitucionāla monarhija ― Japan is a unitary constitutional monarchy

Declension
Declension of Japāna (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) Japāna —
accusative (akuzatīvs) Japānu —
genitive (ģenitīvs) Japānas —
dative (datīvs) Japānai —
instrumental (instrumentālis) Japānu —
locative (lokatīvs) Japānā —
vocative (vokatīvs) Japāna —
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