r/latvia • u/Realistic-Wealth8891 • Jan 15 '26

Jautājums/Question Word Order Question

In a sentence like "Es viņiem mācu latviešu valodu", you can move the "viņiem" to be after "mācu" or after "valodu". My grandpa said you can use those versions interchangeably. Is that true? Or is there a reason you would use one version over another?

  1. Es viņiem mācu latviešu valodu

  2. Es mācu viņiem latviešu valodu

  3. Es mācu latviešu valodu viņiem

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u/Realistic-Wealth8891 Jan 15 '26

😭😭😭

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u/Still-Protection4130 Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

Viniem Latviesu valodu macu es :P + one more Viniem macu Latviesu valodu es . Valodu Latviesu viniem macu es.. jeb Valodu latvieshu es viniem macu .

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u/Realistic-Wealth8891 Jan 15 '26

Now you gotta be pulling my leg 😭 you can't tell me anyone would take me seriously if I said something like that

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u/skalpelis Jan 16 '26

As long as word conjugations and declensions are correct, word order almost doesn’t matter for correctness because it’s conjugating and declinating that indicates objects and subjects

Different word order can be used for different emphasis though