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Belarusian
Etymology
Cognate to Polish chłopiec, Ukrainian хло́пець (xlópecʹ)
Pronunciation
Noun
хло́пец • (xlópjec) m pers (genitive хло́пца, nominative plural хло́пцы, genitive plural хло́пцаў)
- lad, boy
- Coordinate term: дзяўчы́на (dzjaŭčýna)
Declension
Declension of хло́пец (pr hard masc-form accent-a reduc)
1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.
Further reading
- “хлопец” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
Russian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ukrainian хло́пець (xlópecʹ, “boy, lad”), cognate to Polish chłopiec.
Pronunciation
Noun
хло́пец • (xlópec) m anim (genitive хло́пца, nominative plural хло́пцы, genitive plural хло́пцев)
- (colloquial) lad, boy
Наве́ки умо́лкли весёлые хло́пцы, в живы́х я оста́лся оди́н. ("Орлёнок" - "Eaglet",
a song of the Soviet period)
- Navéki umólkli vesjólyje xlópcy, v živýx ja ostálsja odín.
- The merry lads got silent for ever, I was the only one who survived.
Declension
Related terms
- холо́п (xolóp) (serf, slave, bondman; peasant)