Lithuanian Out Loud

In August of 2007, Denmark and Lithuania removed their combat troops from Iraq.  The Lithuanians were withdrawn from the southern city of Basra where they’d been under Danish command.  Over 750 Lithuanian soldiers served in Iraq and not one was killed.  Nine Lithuanian soldiers are staying in Iraq to help train Iraqi troops. Congratulations to the Lithuanian nation on the safe return of their troops.  Personally, I’m thrilled that not a single Lithuanian soldier died in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and hopefully, none will be. We already learned how to use the genitive case or kilmininkas with feminine nouns. -a changes to –os and –ė changes to –ės. Now let’s go over masculine nouns.  Most masculine nouns end in –as, -is, -ys, and –us. Before we do the genitive examples, here are some masculine nouns in the nominative case or vardininkas. Prašom pakartoti, please repeat… Ignas              Ignas, a man’s name, short for Ignacas Ignas   vyras              a man or a husband anglas             the Engl