vaikai

In a sentence

• Vaikai žaidžia kieme.

  The children are playing in the yard.

  Here, 'vaikai' is used as the nominative plural form, meaning 'children' as the subject of the sentence.

• Myliu vaikus.

  I love children.

  Here, 'vaikus' is the accusative plural form of 'vaikai', indicating they are the direct object of the verb 'to love'.

• Pasakysiu apie tai vaikams.

  I will tell the children about it.

  In this sentence, 'vaikams' is the dative plural form, meaning 'to the children' or 'for the children', which is the indirect object of the verb 'to tell'.