Lithuanian Out Loud

LL0269 – Gerti To Drink   Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Gintarė and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language.   According to Radio Vilnius: News and Current Affairs an Easter tradition in Lithuania centers around a swing.  The swings are large enough for more than one person.  Men would swing standing together.  Women would swing sitting and whichever women would swing the highest would be named the best housekeepers.   today we’ll work on the verb gerti   Gerti is a transitive verb so it requires the accusative case or galininkas.  Of course, when we negate a transitive verb, such as negerti, we use kilmininkas or the genitive case.    In Lithuanian aš geriu kavą means I drink coffee or I’m drinking coffee.    here are the verbs gerti and negerti conjugated in the present tense.   to drink gerti   I drink aš geriu   you drink (tu) tu geri   he drinks jis geria   she drinks ji geria   you drink (formal) jūs geriate   we drink mes geria