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Ukrainian
Etymology
From по- (po-) + ки́нути (kýnuty). Compare Russian поки́нуть (pokínutʹ), Belarusian пакі́нуць (pakínucʹ).
Pronunciation
Verb
поки́нути • (pokýnuty) pf (imperfective покида́ти) (transitive)
- to leave (not take away)
- to leave, to quit (depart from; separate from)
2022 May 2, “З початку війни понад 5,5 млн людей покинули Україну, - ООН”, in РБК-Україна, archived from the original on 2022-05-31:
- to abandon, to forsake, to leave behind
- to leave off from, to cease, to quit (doing something: + щось or infinitive)
- to leave, to leave behind (:trace, consequence of action)
1867 [1847], Taras Shevchenko, Мені однаково, чи буду...:В неволі, плачучи, умру,
І все з собою заберу —
Малого сліду не покину
На нашій славній Україні,- V nevoli, plačučy, umru,
I vse z soboju zaberu —
Maloho slidu ne pokynu
Na našij slavnij Ukrajini, - In captivity, crying, will I die,
And I will take all with me -
Nary a trace will I leave
On our glorious Ukraine,
- to leave, to bequeath (transfer possession of after death)
Conjugation
Conjugation of поки́нути, поки́нуть (class 3a, perfective, transitive)
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Further reading
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “покинути”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2022), “покинути”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 13 (підку́са – покі́рно), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
- A. Rysin, V. Starko, Yu. Marchenko, O. Telemko, et al. (compilers, 2007–2022), “покинути”, in Russian-Ukrainian Dictionaries
- A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “покинути”, in English-Ukrainian Dictionaries
- “покинути”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
- “покинути”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
- “покинути”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)