keisti

Keisti is a Lithuanian verb meaning to change, alter, or exchange. It is used to describe making something different, substituting one thing for another, or modifying a state or condition. The verb can take a direct object to indicate what is changed and appears in common phrases such as keisti nuomonę (to change one’s mind) or keisti pinigus (to exchange money). It can also express swapping or mutual substitution, for example keisti vietomis (to swap places). In reflexive constructions, keisti can express changes of state, as in laikas keičiasi (time changes).

Grammatical notes: keisti is a regular Lithuanian verb and forms across tenses and moods with standard endings. It is commonly used in everyday speech, journalism, and literature, in both literal and figurative meanings of change or exchange. The past, future, and conditional forms are produced through ordinary inflection, and there are imperative forms for direct commands.

Etymology and related forms: the word derives from a Baltic language root associated with turning or transforming. Related nouns express the act or result of changing, such as keitimas, which denotes the act of change or exchange, and related adjectives and participles connected to the idea of alteration.

See also: change, exchange, Lithuanian verbs of motion and transformation.