Language quiz: "ik viens", "ikkviens" or "ikviens" – which is correct?
Latvia's public media portal LSM has published a quiz on Latvian language and grammar, built around tricky spelling variants. It is based on the Latvian Television show "Gudrs, vēl gudrāks".
The Latvian public media portal LSM published a quiz on 23 October that lets readers test their knowledge of Latvian language and grammar. The tasks draw on questions from the Latvian Television (LTV) programme "Gudrs, vēl gudrāks" (roughly "Smart, Even Smarter"), and anyone interested can take it.
What the quiz asks
The quiz focuses on words whose spelling and usage often cause doubt. One question asks how to correctly write the word meaning "every single person": "ik viens", "ikkviens" or "ikviens".
Another concerns the pronouns "kurš" (which) and "jebkurš" (any), asking which of the two fits a given situation.
A third example covers variants of the indefinite pronoun, "kaukāds", "kaut kāds" and "kautkāds", where the participant must decide which form is right.
Who it is for
The publication says the quiz can be used to check one's own knowledge. The source does not say how many questions it contains, how results are scored or what the correct answers are, so only the question types described in the article are mentioned here.
The material appears in LSM's lifestyle section and serves as a light reminder of language norms.
