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Ukrainian
Etymology
From за- (za-) + бра́ти (bráty). Compare Russian забра́ть (zabrátʹ), Belarusian забра́ць (zabrácʹ), Polish zabrać.
Pronunciation
Verb
забра́ти • (zabráty) pf (imperfective забира́ти) (transitive)
- to take (to get into one's hands, possession or control)
- to take (to escort or conduct a person)
- to collect, to pick up (:passenger, goods)
- to take away, to remove, to withdraw
- to take, to claim (:life)
Тера́кт забра́в життя́ трьох люде́й.- Terákt zabráv žyttjá trʹox ljudéj.
- A terrorist act claimed the lives of three people.
- to take, to occupy (to seize or capture)
- (colloquial) to take away (to make someone leave a place and go somewhere else, usually not with the person's consent)
- (colloquial) to arrest, to detain
- Synonyms: заарештува́ти pf (zaareštuváty, “to arrest”), затри́мати pf (zatrýmaty, “to detain”)
- (colloquial) to take hold (of a feeling, condition: to take root, become established)
- (figuratively) to take, to take up (:time, energy, etc.)
- to bear (to be, or head, in a specific direction)
Conjugation
Conjugation of забра́ти, забра́ть (class 6°b, perfective, transitive, irregular)
Derived terms
Further reading
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “забрати”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2014), “забрати”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 5 (з – зв'я́нути), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
- A. Rysin, V. Starko, Yu. Marchenko, O. Telemko, et al. (compilers, 2007–2022), “забрати”, in Russian-Ukrainian Dictionaries
- A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “забрати”, in English-Ukrainian Dictionaries
- “забрати”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
- “забрати”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
- “забрати”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)