пять

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Carpathian Rusyn

Carpathian Rusyn cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : пять (pjatʹ)
    Ordinal : пя́тый (pjátŷj)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Ukrainian пять (pjatʹ), пѧть (pjatʹ), from Old East Slavic пѧть (pętĭ), from Proto-Slavic *pętь (five). Compare with Ukrainian п'ять (pʺjatʹ).

Pronunciation

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пять (pjatʹ)

  1. five (5)
    Дакому стачіть лем раз пояснити, і такой розумить, а дакому пять раз, і так не розумить.
    Dakomu stačitʹ lem raz pojasnyty, i takoj rozumytʹ, a dakomu pjatʹ raz, i tak ne rozumytʹ.
    Someone need to be explained only once, and he would understand it, and someone needs to be explained five times and he still does not understand.

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Russian

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Russian numbers (edit)
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 ←  4 5 6  → 
    Cardinal: пять (pjatʹ)
    Ordinal: пя́тый (pjátyj)
    Ordinal abbreviation: 5-ый (5-yj)
    Adverbial: пя́тью (pjátʹju)
    Multiplier: пятерно́й (pjaternój), пятикра́тный (pjatikrátnyj)
    Collective: пя́теро (pjátero)
    Fractional: пя́тая (pjátaja), пяти́на (pjatína)

Inherited from Old East Slavic пѧть (pętĭ), from Proto-Slavic *pętь.

Cognate with English five, German fünf, Italian cinque, French cinq, Greek πέντε (pénte), Persian پَنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (pañca).

Numeral

пять (pjatʹ)

  1. five (5)
Usage notes

пять (pjatʹ) in the nominative case and accusative case governs the genitive plural of the noun. In other cases, it governs the corresponding plural case of the noun.

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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

пять (pjatʹ)

  1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of пя́тить (pjátitʹ)