Sveikatai

Sveikatai is the dative singular form of the Lithuanian noun sveikata, which denotes health in the broad sense of physical and mental well-being. The base noun sveikata is used to describe a person’s or a population’s health, as well as health as a concept in medicine, public health, and everyday speech.

In Lithuanian, sveikata is a feminine noun with several case forms: nominative sveikata, genitive sveikatos, dative sveikatai, accusative sveikatą, locative sveikatoje, and vocative sveikata. The form sveikatai appears most often as the dative singular, used when something is directed toward or concerned with health, or when stating that attention or actions are given to health. An example sentence is: Aš skiriu daugiau dėmesio sveikatai.

Usage and context are standard across registers, including medical, educational, media, and everyday language. Sveikatai appears in phrases related to health topics, public health campaigns, and discussions of personal or communal well-being. It is commonly encountered in formal and informal Lithuanian alike.

Etymology traces sveikata to the Lithuanian word for healthy, sveikas, with the same root that conveys well-being. The noun sveikata developed to denote the state of being healthy, and sveikatai as a grammatical form reflects its syntactic role in sentences. The term is a core element in discussions of health and welfare in the Lithuanian language.