zagt

German

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aːkt

Verb

zagt

1. inflection of zagen:
   1. second-person plural present
   2. third-person singular present
   3. plural imperative

Latvian

Etymology

Usually derived from Proto-Baltic *žangō (from Latvian *zuoguo, from the present tense form zogu), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ- (“dirty”). The semantic evolution was presumably from “to make dirty, to defile” to “to defile by stealing” to “to steal”. Cognates include Lithuanian žàgti, present form: žagiù (“to make dirty, to steal”), present form: žangù (“to eat something forbidden, to steal”); from the adjectival form *ǵʰogʰos (“dirty”), also Sanskrit जघन (jaghana, “buttocks; shame”), Ancient Greek κοχώνη (kokhṓnē, “crotch”). A more recent hypothesis relates zagt to Lithuanian žeñgti (“to walk, to go”), iterative form žangýti; the present tense form žangaũ would then correspond to Latvian zogu. This hypothesis would presumably explain better the meaning of Latvian reflexive form zagties (“to sneak, to go without being noticed”) (compare to Russian красть (krastʹ, “to steal”) и красться (krastʹsja, “to walk, to go without being noticed”)).^[1]

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Verb

zagt (transitive or intransitive, 1st conjugation, present zogu, zodz, zog, past zagu)

1. to steal (to take something without permission, against the law, often also secretly, unbeknownst to its owner)

   zagta manta ― stolen property

   lai iegūtu līdzekļus eksistēšanai, viņš gāja zagt ― in order to obtain the means of existing (= living), he went stealing

   es neesmu zadzis cita mantu ― I haven't stolen other people's property

2. (figuratively) to steal (to obtain, to use secretly, without permission)

   jūs zogat skaistāko, kas cilvēkam vien var būt; jūs zogat sapņus, jus zogat nākotni ― you steal the most beautiful (things) a person can have; you steal dreams, you steal the future

3. (figuratively) to steal (to cause someone to lose something, to not be able to use or have something)

   rīt ārsti attālinās nāves varu, kas pāragri mums dzīves gadus zog ― tomorrow the doctors will push away the power of death, which has stolen life years prematurely from us

Conjugation

	INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme)				IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme)
		Present (tagadne)	Past (pagātne)	Future (nākotne)
1st pers. sg.	es	zogu	zagu	zagšu	—
2nd pers. sg.	tu	zodz	zagi	zagsi	zodz
3rd pers. sg.	viņš, viņa	zog	zaga	zags	lai zog
1st pers. pl.	mēs	zogam	zagām	zagsim	zagsim
2nd pers. pl.	jūs	zogat	zagāt	zagsiet, zagsit	zodziet
3rd pers. pl.	viņi, viņas	zog	zaga	zags	lai zog
RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme)			PARTICIPLES (divdabji)
Present	zogot		Present Active 1 (Adj.)		zogošs
Past	esot zadzis		Present Active 2 (Adv.)		zagdams
Future	zagšot		Present Active 3 (Adv.)		zogot
Imperative	lai zogot		Present Active 4 (Obj.)		zogam
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme)			Past Active		zadzis
Present	zagtu		Present Passive		zogams
Past	būtu zadzis		Past Passive		zagts
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme)			NOMINAL FORMS
Indicative	(būt) jāzog		Infinitive (nenoteiksme)		zagt
Conjunctive 1	esot jāzog		Negative Infinitive		nezagt
Conjunctive 2	jāzogot		Verbal noun		zagšana

conjugation of zagt

Synonyms

• laupīt

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

• apzagt
• izzagt
• nozagt
• pazagt
• piezagt
• sazagt

other derived terms:

• zagties

Related terms

• zādzība
• zaglis, zagle
• zaglīgs, zaglīgums, zaglība
• zagšus

References

1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “zagt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN