pirkti

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate to Latvian pirkt; further origin outside of Baltic uncertain. Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *prek-, from *per-k-, a hypothetical -k-variant of *perh₂- (to sell), in which case compare Ancient Greek πέρνημι (pérnēmi, to sell).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpʲɪrʲkʲtʲɪ]

Verb

pir̃kti (third-person present tense per̃ka, third-person past tense pir̃ko)

  1. to buy
    perki, Jonai?
    What are you buying, Jonas?

Conjugation

Conjugation of pirkti
singular vienaskaita plural daugiskaita
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
tu jis/ji mes jūs jie/jos
indicative present perku perki perka perkame,
perkam
perkate,
perkat
perka
past pirkau pirkai pirko pirkome,
pirkom
pirkote,
pirkot
pirko
past frequentative pirkdavau pirkdavai pirkdavo pirkdavome,
pirkdavom
pirkdavote,
pirkdavot
pirkdavo
future pirksiu pirksi pirks pirksime,
pirksim
pirksite,
pirksit
pirks
subjunctive pirkčiau pirktum,
pirktumei
pirktų pirktumėme,
pirktumėm,
pirktume
pirktumėte,
pirktumėt
pirktų
imperative pirk,
pirki
teperka,
teperkie
pirkime,
pirkim
pirkite,
pirkit
teperka,
teperkie
Participles of pirkti
adjectival (dalyviai)
active passive
present perkąs, perkantis perkamas
past pirkęs pirktas
past frequentative pirkdavęs
future pirksiąs, pirksiantis pirksimas
participle of necessity pirktinas
adverbial
special pusdalyvis pirkdamas
half-participle present perkant
past pirkus
past frequentative pirkdavus
future pirksiant
manner of action būdinys pirkte, pirktinai

Derived terms

Prefixed verbs
  • apipirkti, apsipirkti
  • atpirkti, atsipirkti
  • dapirkti
  • išpirkti
  • įpirkti
  • nupirkti, nusipirkti
  • paišpirkti
  • panupirkti
  • papapirkti
  • papirkti
  • parazpirkti
  • parpirkti
  • perpirkti
  • razpirkti
  • supirkti
  • užpirkti

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “pirkti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 357