подражать

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Russian

Etymology

Probably derived from Old Church Slavonic дра́га (drága, road, path, way) (see доро́га (doróga)) and literally meaning “to go the same path that someone has gone”, “to follow in someone's footsteps”; over time, the meaning shifted to "to reproduce something or someone's actions".

Pronunciation

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Verb

подража́ть (podražátʹimpf (+ dative case)

  1. to imitate, to copy, to ape
    Ви́тя подража́ет ста́ршему бра́ту во всём.
    Vítja podražájet stáršemu brátu vo vsjom.
    Vitya imitates (his) elder brother in everything.

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Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “подражать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress