That’s right! :))

Thank you so much! What a pleasure to read :)))

My dad is Latvian and his name is karlis 😬

My grandmother Zenta would always say “Nuuuuu?” Watching this made me really miss her.

I think “well” comes quite close, but maybe Latvian is just superior when it comes to laziness of vocabulary :D

Thank you for the lovely comment! ☺️

Awesome! One step closer to mutual understanding:))

Hi Estonia! :D same in Finnish but we have the "no" version. However, in spoken Finnish we do sometimes say it as "noh" as well. Eg."no, kuis menee?" (how are you?) "no mitä!" (WHAT! speak up!)

I feel like I could make parts 2 and 3 out of the “nu” rejects I had to cut for time :D

​@@irregularLatvian Gaidīšu otro un trešo daļu ;);) nu kā? - how is that possible? nu un? - and your point is?

"Nu nu" vispār var jebkurā situācijā vai intonācijā lietot, kad kaut kas jāapšauba vai jāapsmej nodomi.

Thank you Vanessa! Well this lesson should be easy! Learn how to use “nu” and you’re halfway there :)))

Thank you :) I’m very happy to read this

So do I! Yesterday I finally gathered my courage and ordered an etymology dictionary. So I can dig deeper :)))

Thanks! :)))

Paldies!! :)

Ooo I see what you did there :)

Thank you! :)))

Nu forši - var arī nozīmēt “Tu nu gan visu esi salaidis dēlī”. Tāpat kā “nu malacis” 😂

@@irregularLatvian jā, intonācija ir atslēga. Nu lāaaaabi ir pielietojams arī tad, ja tu kāda stāstītajam īsti nenotici, bet pierādījumu, ka viņš melo, arī nav.

@@dainalepika5953 Kā arī, ja kāds tev lūdz ko izdarīt, bet tu negribīgi piekrīti to darīt.

Paldies!

Hi! I am SO GLAD to hear that !! :)) Thank you

I‘d say it’s a variant of “nu jā” :) Or it could be “nu evidently, son, clear as ledus on the Baltic Sea”

Nu pilnīgi vaidziņi pietvīka! Paldies :)))

Paldies! :)

Paldies! :)))

Thanks, Dave!! :)

Thanks, Dave!! :)

Paldies!!! :)))

Nu tad lieliski! :))

Im just discovering the similarities now thanks to a Czech viewer that we talk with in the comments! Some of the words you have like “zemepis” (geography?) sound more Latvian than Latvian words!! That is crazy interesting :)

@@irregularLatvianYes, it does sound/look quite Latvian :) It's geography, and it's spelled "zeměpis" - it's pronounced in such a way that you would spell "zemņepis". Our languages are sometimes eerily similar. For example, Czech used to have infinitives ending in "-ti" (like Lithuanian still does), but modern Czech shifted to infinitives ending in "-t", like Latvian. Also, of course, the stress on the first syllable and the phonemic distinction between short and long vowels.

Es pajautāju padomu arī Valsts Valodas Centram. Lai gan saņēmu to tieši pēc video jau bija publicēts, man atsūtīja ļoti daudz lietderīgas informācijas par “nu” daudzveidīgo nozīmi tieši latviešu valodā. Tur par vesela otrā daļa sanāktu :)) tā kā taisnība Jums ir!

Yes indeed! I was wondering if it was from russian, but aparently also in greek it exists!

it seems like these words are ultimately descended from the common ancestor of all of these languages: Proto-Indo-European en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/nu#Descendants

Hahaha! Let me know how you get on! :)))

@@irregularLatvian i just learned that the word indeed exists in the saxonian dialect and it has the same meaning 😅

Wow really?? I though it came from Russian. Hmmm curious

@@irregularLatvian well, eastern germany was under russian influence for a long time. who knows :D

Oo cool to know! ;) There should be many more similarities between our languages

Laba ideja! :))

I know, and I wondered if this was an influence at some point. But, if it is so, it must be one of the reasons why the Balto-Slavic branch is one branch. “Nu” is one of the rare bridges between our languages :)

that seems to be a thing in many Eastern European languages. Even speaking to some native Yiddish-speakers in New York one would hear some occasional "nu?", as Yiddish soaked in quite a bit of the Eastern European lexicon.

Thanks! It means “well, that’s great!” :)

@@irregularLatvian Not at all! , oh latvian sounds nice and a new word to my wish list hehe...

or english

Paldies par jauko atsauksmi! :))) milzu smaids :)

Mine also said “Nū jau, nū jau!” -> dont exaggerate! “Nu” truly is a gift that keeps on giving :D

Paldies! :)))

“Nu tā” tā kā vidēji vai “nu tā” tākā tā ? :D Pierakstu šo. :)

Nu tad tā.

Jeeesh! O.o

@@irregularLatvian I doubt I'm going to be able to learn your language. Maybe I should learn French, Spanish, German, and Italian instead. May be easier. At least from what I've read it might take less time. Been listening to Latvian folk music for about six years. I don't have much of a clue. Spent a month in France and could almost understand it about 1/2 of the time by the end of the month. Not encouraged. At least there are a lot of words for which one may make some sort mental relation to English words even if fairly tangential. Hope no more mail women get murdered over coronavirus crack checks here. Well, gotta get back to work on my $1200 corona sauna/tornado shelter/pizza oven/BBQ smoker/zombie apocalypse survival bunker. Have a good one.

Paldies! :)

Nuuuuu nē.. Latvian is immortal :)