время

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Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic врѣмѧ (vrěmę), from Proto-Slavic *vermę < *vertmen, from Proto-Indo-European *wertmen. Displaced native Old East Slavic веремѧ (veremę). Cognate with Sanskrit वर्त्मन् (vártman, “track, course”).

See also pleophony (CeRC > CeReC) and liquid metathesis (CeRC > CReC, CRēC).

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  • Rhymes: -emʲə

Noun

вре́мя • (vrémja) n inan (genitive вре́мени, nominative plural времена́, genitive plural времён, relational adjective временно́й, diminutive вре́мечко)

  1. time
    вре́мя го́да ― vrémja góda ― season
    во вре́мя ― vo vrémja ― during
    в настоя́щее вре́мя ― v nastojáščeje vrémja ― at present
    в ско́ром вре́мени ― v skórom vrémeni ― soon
    в то же вре́мя ― v to že vrémja ― at that same time
    за после́днее вре́мя ― za poslédneje vrémja ― recently
    вре́мя от вре́мени ― vrémja ot vrémeni ― from time to time
    ско́лько вре́мени? ― skólʹko vrémeni? ― how long?; what time is it?
    по ме́стному вре́мени ― po méstnomu vrémeni ― (by) local time
    в режи́ме реа́льного вре́мени ― v režíme reálʹnovo vrémeni ― (in) real time
    У меня́ вре́мени в обре́з. ― U menjá vrémeni v obréz. ― I have just enough time. / I have no time to spare.
    свободное вре́мя ― svobodnoje vrémja ― free time / leisure
  2. (grammar) tense

Declension

Declension of вре́мя (inan neut-form 3rd-decl accent-c) 
singular plural
nominative вре́мя
vrémja 		времена́
vremená
genitive вре́мени
vrémeni 		времён
vremjón
dative вре́мени
vrémeni 		времена́м
vremenám
accusative вре́мя
vrémja 		времена́
vremená
instrumental вре́менем
vrémenem 		времена́ми
vremenámi
prepositional вре́мени
vrémeni 		времена́х
vremenáx

For declension of врѣ́мя (vrě́mja) see its entry.

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References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “время”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “время”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 170
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