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LingoBear creates short Lithuanian passages on topics you choose. Tap any word for an instant English translation and build your vocabulary as you read. Baltic language regarded as the most archaic surviving Indo-European, 32-letter Latin alphabet with ą, č, ę, ė, į, š, ų, ū, ž, seven cases, ~3M speakers.

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Every word in your Lithuanian reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help — useful for parsing case endings and the pitch accent system.

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Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Lithuanian reading passage — from Vilnius Old Town to Žalgiris basketball.

Why is Lithuanian called the most archaic Indo-European language?

Lithuanian preserves a remarkable number of features reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European: pitch accent on stressed syllables, seven cases including a productive vocative and instrumental, three genders, dual number on pronouns and (historically) nouns, and many root forms close to Sanskrit. Hence the often-quoted Sanskrit sūnus ≈ Lithuanian sūnus 'son', or devas 'god' ≈ dievas.

What grammar features does Lithuanian have?

Lithuanian has seven noun cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, vocative), two main genders (masculine and feminine), and verbs marked for tense, aspect, mood and person. Stress can fall on different syllables of the same word in different forms — and carries one of three pitch accents — so most learners use a marked text initially. LingoBear lets you see these in real reading material.