потянуться

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Russian

Etymology

потяну́ть (potjanútʹ) +‎ -ся (-sja)

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Verb

потяну́ться (potjanútʹsjapf (imperfective тяну́ться or потя́гиваться)

  1. (intransitive) to stretch (of a person, to take a stretch)
    Imperfective: потя́гиваться (potjágivatʹsja)
    • 1973, Михаил Булгаков [Mikhail Bulgakov], “Глава XXVII. Конец квартиры № 50”, in Мастер и Маргарита; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., Master and Margarita, London: Penguin Books, 1997:
      Маргари́та подняла́сь с кре́сла, потяну́лась и то́лько тепе́рь ощути́ла, как изло́мано её те́ло и как хо́чет она́ спать.
      Margaríta podnjalásʹ s krésla, potjanúlasʹ i tólʹko tepérʹ oščutíla, kak izlómano jejó télo i kak xóčet oná spatʹ.
      Margarita got up from the armchair, stretched, and only then felt how broken her body was and how much she wanted to sleep.
  2. to reach
  3. to follow in succession
  4. passive of потяну́ть (potjanútʹ)

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