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I love Angelou's music, and I found this song by browsing her discography. But I cannot find the lyrics anywhere, and it's driving me nuts!

I'm still a beginner in Lithuanian, so I can only pick out a few lines:

• Pasirink nemačius (from Keanu's first verse; Angelou sings pasirink nematęs later on in the song)
• The hook/chorus (Aš tik noriu būti čia, aš tik noriu būt šalia... oh, aš tik noriu būti čia)
• Jai atrodo, kad viskas gerai (from Keanu's second verse; not sure if it's jai or jei here)
• Noriu būti čia all day (from Angelou's first verse)
• Pasakyk pagaliau (from Angelou's last line before the chorus)
• I think Angelou sings vėl kartojau after Keanu sings aš tik noriu būt šalia.

Other than that, I have no clue what they're saying, and as I said, the lyrics don't seem to be available anywhere on the Internet. Padėkite, atsiprašau!

Iš ankšto dėkoju :-)

Moi kaikille!

So I'm a bit of an amateur linguist, and something about Finnish just crossed my mind.

I've always been interested in the way kids pick up their native language and the errors they make while learning to speak. For example, in my native language (English), it's not uncommon to hear little kids say something like "I goed to school" or "her was mean to me".

I was just wondering: do little Finnish kids misconstrue words ending in –na/–nä as being in the essive case?

That is, if a kid hears a word like porkkana, ikkuna, päärynä, etc., do they subconsciously extrapolate "nominative" forms such as *porkka, *ikku, *pääry and then use those in their own sentences (i.e., Mä haluun *porkkoja instead of porkkanoita, or Mä tykkään *pääryistä instead of päärynöistä)?

If you're a native speaker, have you ever heard a child make that sort of error? If not, what other native-speaker child errors can you attest to?

Kiitos etukäteen!

Sveiki visi!

I love to play cards, and I wanted to learn some Lithuanian vocabulary related to that.

Here's what I've found so far. Native speakers, please feel free to add on to this or to correct me if I've made any mistakes. Iš ankšto dėkoju :-)

I've marked the stress with italics.

• korta (pl. kortos) - card
• kaladė - deck
• spalva (pl. spalvos) - suit (literally: color)
  • ♥️ širdys (f.), čirvai - hearts
  • ♦️ būgnai - diamonds
  • ♠️ pikai, vynai - spades
  • ♣️ kryžiai - clubs
• galvos, poninės (kortos), kortos su paveikslėliais, figūros - face cards
  • valetas, bartukas, berniukas - jack
  • dama, mergelė, karalienė - queen
  • karalius - king
  • džokeris - joker
• akinės (kortos), kortos su akimis - pip cards (cards ace to ten; pips are called "eyes", akys, in Lithuanian)
  • tūzas - ace (I included it here because it's technically a pip card, even though it's usually considered a face card in lots of games)
  • The cards from two to ten are, to the best of my knowledge, called by these names:
    • dviakė
    • triakė
    • keturakė
    • penkakė
    • šešakė
    • septynakė
    • aštuonakė
    • devynakė
    • dešimtakė
• When naming a specific card, you first use the suit (always in the genitive plural), then the rank (whose case will depend on context).
  • širdžių dama, čirvų dama - the queen of hearts
  • būgnų valetas - the jack of diamonds
  • pikų tūzas, vynų tūzas - the ace of spades
  • kryžių karalius - the king of clubs
  • būgnų šešakė - the six of diamonds
  • kryžių dešimtakė - the ten of clubs

Let me know if I've made any mistakes! Also, how would I say things like "to deal", "to shuffle", "to bet", etc.? Ačiū dar kartą!