приняться

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Russian

Etymology

приня́ть (prinjátʹ) +‎ -ся (-sja)

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Verb

приня́ться (prinjátʹsjapf (imperfective принима́ться)

  1. to set about, to start doing (something)
    Он принялся́ чита́ть кни́ги.On prinjalsjá čitátʹ knígi.He started reading books.
    • 1905, Фёдор Сологуб [Fyodor Sologub], chapter III, in Мелкий бес; English translation from John Cournos and Richard Aldington, transl., The Little Demon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916:
      Воло́дин, пры́гая и хохоча́, побежа́л в за́лу и принялся́ ша́ркать подо́швами по обо́ям.
      Volódin, prýgaja i xoxočá, pobežál v zálu i prinjalsjá šárkatʹ podóšvami po obójam.
      Volodin, skipping and laughing, ran into the parlour and began to smear and rub his boots on the wall-paper.
  2. to take root
    Са́женцы бы́стро приняли́сь.Sážency býstro prinjalísʹ.The seedlings have quickly taken root.

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