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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction - ievads | |
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| Development of the Latvian language | |
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| The Latvian language today | |
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| Latvian dialects � latvie�u valodas dialekti | |
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| Pronunciation and orthography - pareizruna un pareizrakstiba | |
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| Vowels - patskani | |
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| Diphthongs - divskani | |
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| Consonants - lidzskani | |
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| Sound changes - skanu parmainas | |
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| Word stress - varda uzsvars | |
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| Tone - intonacija | |
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| Phrase and sentence stress - frazes un teikuma uzsvars | |
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| The alphabet - alfabets | |
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| Word division - vardu dali�ana | |
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| Capitalization - lielo sakumburtu lieto�ana | |
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| Foreign names - citvalodu ipa�vardi | |
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| Nouns - lietvardi | |
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| Grammatical categories - gramatiskas kategorijas | |
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| Declension - dekline�ana | |
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| Diminutives - deminutivi, pamazinamie lietvardi | |
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| Noun formation - lietvardu darina�ana | |
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| Pronouns - vietniekvardi | |
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| Personal pronouns - personu vietniekvardi | |
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| Possessive pronouns - piederlbas vietniekvardi | |
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| Reflexive personal pronoun - atgriezeniskais vietniekvards | |
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| Demonstrative pronouns - noradamie vietniekvardi | |
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| Interrogative pronouns - jautajamie vietniekvardi | |
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| Relative pronouns - attieksmes vietniekvardi | |
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| Indefinite pronouns - nenoteiktie vietniekvardi | |
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| Definite pronouns - noteiktie vietniekvardi | |
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| Negative pronouns - noliedzamie, noliegtie vietniekvardi | |
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| Emphatic pronoun - noteicamais vietniekvards | |
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| Reciprocal pronouns - vietniekvardi, kuri norada uz savstarpejam attieksmem | |
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| Adjectives - ipa�ibas vardi | |
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| Indefinite endings - nenoteiktas galotnes | |
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| Definite endings - noteiktas galotnes | |
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| Degrees of comparison - salidzinamas pakapes | |
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| Formation of adjectives - ipa�ibas vardu darina�ana | |
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| Adverbs - apstakla vardi | |
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| Cause and purpose - celona un noluka apstakla vardi | |
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| Degree - mera apstakla vardi | |
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| Indefinite and negative adverbs - nenoteiktie un negativie apstakla vardi | |
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| Interrogative adverbs - jautajuma apstakla vardi | |
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| Manner - veida apstakla vardi | |
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| Place - vietas apstakla vardi | |
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| Time - laika apstakla vardi | |
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| Comparison of adverbs - apstakla vardu salidzinamas pakapes | |
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| Use compared with English | |
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| Impersonal constructions | |
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| Writing and pronouncing adverbs � apstakla vardu pareizrakstiba un pareizruna | |
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| Formation of adverbs - apstakla vardu darina�ana | |
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| Numerals and quantifiers, time � skaitja vardi, laiks | |
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| Cardinal numbers - pamata skaitla vardi | |
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| Declension of numbers and their grammatical use | |
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| Ordinal numbers - kartas skaitla vardi | |
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| Fractions and decimals - dalskaitli un decimaldalskaitli | |
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| Punctuation with numbers | |
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| Definite and indefinite quantifiers | |
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| Telling the time - pulkstena laiks | |
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| Days of the week, months, dates | |
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| Verbs - darbibas vardi | |
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| Verb forms and categories | |
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| Conjugation of simple tenses - vienkar�o laiku konjugacija | |
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| Tenses - laiki | |
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| Imperfective and perfective aspect - nepabeigtie un pabeigtie darbibas veidi | |
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| Active and passive voice - darama un cie�ama karta | |
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| Infinitives - nenoteiksme | |
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| Participles - divdabji | |
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| Mood - izteiksme | |
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| Verb formation - darbibas virdu darina�ana | |
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| Prepositions - prievardi | |
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| Prepositions and case | |
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| Plurals | |
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| Postpositions | |
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| Semi-prepositions/semi-postpositions - pusprievardi | |
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| Prepositions and verb prefixes | |
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| Conjunctions - saikli | |
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| Coordinating conjunctions - sakartojuma saikli | |
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| Subordinating conjunctions - pakartojuma saikli | |
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| Cases - locijumi | |
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| Nominative - nominativs | |
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| The genitive - genitivs | |
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| The dative - dativs | |
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| The accusative - akuzativs | |
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| The locative - lokativs | |
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| The vocative - vokatlvs | |
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| The instrumental - instrumentalis | |
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| Syntax and punctuation - sintakse un interpunkcija | |
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| Word order - vardu seciba | |
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| Members of a sentence - teikuma locekli | |
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| Negation - nolieguma teikumi | |
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| Questions - jautajuma teikumi | |
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| Full stop - punkts (.) | |
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| Exclamation mark - izsaukuma zime (!) | |
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| Comma - komats (,) | |
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| Semi-colon - semikols (;) | |
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| Colon - kols (:) | |
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| Single quotation marks - vienpedinas (,') | |
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| Double quotation marks - pedinas (� �, “ ”) | |
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| Apostrophe - apostrofs (') | |
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| Second-/third-conjugation verbs ending in -et/-eties | |
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| Reverse retrieval of verbs and nouns | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Internet resources | |
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| Index | |