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Introduction to Lithuanian:
Lesson 12

Let’s go to our ULTIMATE challenge. Oh, yup, ULTIMATE. This is the word which will help us a lot.

Look at the three first vowels in it:

UltImAte

Well, believe it or not but these three vowels in the word ultimate correspond to the tense endings for I, informal you and he/she (in Lithuanian respectively: aš, tu, jis/ji). So takes on the u ending, tu takes on i, and jis/ji takes on a.

We already had the ending a for jis form in the word kalba. You can see from the word UltImAte.

Knowing that ends in u (UltImAte) and tu ends in i (UltImAte), how would you say:

I speak Lithuanian.

Answer: Aš kalbu lietuviškai.
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Do you speak English?

Answer: Tu kalbi angliškai?
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