меншасць

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Belarusian

Alternative forms

ме́ншасьць (mjénšasʹcʹ) — Taraškievica orthography
mienšaść — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Etymology

From ме́ншы (mjénšy, “smaller”) +‎ -асць (-ascʹ, “-ness”). Possibly a calque of Polish mniejszość, in turn a calque of Latin minōritās. Cognate with Ukrainian ме́ншість (ménšistʹ).

Pronunciation

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Noun

ме́ншасць • (mjénšascʹ) f inan (genitive ме́ншасці, nominative plural ме́ншасці, genitive plural ме́ншасцей)

minority
Antonym: бо́льшасць (bólʹšascʹ)

Declension

Declension of ме́ншасць (inan soft 3rd-decl fem-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	ме́ншасць mjénšascʹ	ме́ншасці mjénšasci
genitive	ме́ншасці mjénšasci	ме́ншасцей mjénšascjej
dative	ме́ншасці mjénšasci	ме́ншасцям mjénšascjam
accusative	ме́ншасць mjénšascʹ	ме́ншасці mjénšasci
instrumental	ме́ншасцю mjénšascju	ме́ншасцямі mjénšascjami
locative	ме́ншасці mjénšasci	ме́ншасцях mjénšascjax
count form	—	ме́ншасці¹ mjénšasci¹

¹Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

Derived terms

нацме́ншасць (nacmjénšascʹ, “national minority”)

See also

"-ity" words calqued from Latin

ко́лькасць (kólʹkascʹ)
я́касць (jákascʹ)

References

“меншасць” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org

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