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Ukrainian
Etymology
From по- (po-) + куса́ти (kusáty). Compare Russian покуса́ть (pokusátʹ), Belarusian пакуса́ць (pakusácʹ), Polish pokąsać.
Pronunciation
Verb
покуса́ти • (pokusáty) pf (transitive)
- to bite (all or a lot of, or in many places)
- Imperfective: куса́ти (kusáty)
- to sting (all or a lot of, or in many places)
- Imperfective: куса́ти (kusáty)
- to bite (several times, especially due to excitement, fear, nervousness, etc.)
- Imperfectives: куса́ти (kusáty), поку́сувати (pokúsuvaty)
- to bite, to bite into (all or a lot of some food)
- Imperfectives: куса́ти (kusáty), поку́сувати (pokúsuvaty)
2023 September 21, “Завжди в гарній формі. Як харчуватися без обмежень та мати ідеальний вигляд — правила раціону від Аніти Луценко”, in NV, archived from the original on 2023-09-21:Обов’язково їмо якісь продукти, які нам необхідно покусати для того, щоб наша щелепа добре працювала і зуби не забували про свою функцію.- Obovʺjazkovo jimo jakisʹ produkty, jaki nam neobxidno pokusaty dlja toho, ščob naša ščelepa dobre pracjuvala i zuby ne zabuvaly pro svoju funkciju.
- We must eat some foods that we need to bite into so that our jaw works well and our teeth do not forget their function.
Conjugation
Conjugation of покуса́ти, покуса́ть (class 1a, perfective, transitive)
Further reading
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “покусати”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- A. Rysin, V. Starko, Yu. Marchenko, O. Telemko, et al. (compilers, 2007–2022), “покусати”, in Russian-Ukrainian Dictionaries
- A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “покусати”, in English-Ukrainian Dictionaries
- “покусати”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
- “покусати”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
- “покусати”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)