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Belarusian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Compare Polish pauza, Russian па́уза (páuza) and Ukrainian па́уза (páuza).
Pronunciation
Noun
па́ўза • (páŭza) f inan (genitive па́ўзы, nominative plural па́ўзы, genitive plural па́ўзаў)
- pause
1928 [1886], Vladimir Korolenko, translated by Makar Kraŭcoŭ, Сьляпы музыка, Вільня: „Віленскае Выдавецтва“ Б. Клецкіна, translation of Слепой музыкант, page 40; English translation from Aline Delano, transl., The blind musician, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1891, page 74:Але не прайшло і трох дзён, як гэтыя паўзы зрабіліся ўсё часьцейшымі ды часьцейшымі.- Alje nje prajšló i trox dzjon, jak hetyja paŭzy zrabilisja ŭsjo časʹcjejšymi dy časʹcjejšymi.
- Three days had not gone by when these pauses grew more and more frequent.
Declension
Declension of па́ўза (inan hard fem-form accent-a)
1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.
References
- “паўза” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
- “паўза”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)