казаць

Inherited from Old East Slavic казати (kazati), from Proto-Slavic *kāzàti.

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• Rhymes: -at͡sʲ
• Hyphenation: ка‧заць

каза́ць • (kazácʹ) impf (perfective сказа́ць)

1. (intransitive) to say (to express some thoughts, opinions orally)

   Мая маці заўсёды кажа, што я не павінен размаўляць з незнаёмымі людзьмі.

   Maja maci zaŭsjódy kaža, što ja nje pavinjen razmaŭljacʹ z njeznajómymi ljudzʹmi.

   My mother always says that I shouldn't talk to strangers.

2. (impersonal, in the third person plural) to say (used to indicate a rumor or well-known fact)
3. (transitive, also figuratively) to oblige, order
4. (transitive, figuratively) to indicate, say

• “казаць”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
• “казаць” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org