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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *věra (“faith”) + *-ovati, with *věriti as a competing form. Absent from West Slavic; possibly a South Slavic innovation, and loaned from Old Church Slavonic into East Slavic languages, where it is a higher-register synonym of the *věriti reflexes.
Verb
*vě̀rovati impf
- to believe
Conjugation
Conjugation of
*věrovati, *věrova, *věrujetь (
impf.,
-ova/u-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)
| Verbal noun
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Infinitive
|
Supine
|
L-participle
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| *věrovanьje
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*věrovati
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*věrovatъ
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*věrovalъ
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|
|
Participles
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| Tense
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Past
|
Present
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| Passive
|
*věrovanъ
|
*věrujemъ
|
| Active
|
*věrovavъ
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*věruję
|
|
|
Aorist
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Present
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| Person
|
1st
|
2nd
|
3rd
|
1st
|
2nd
|
3rd
|
| Singular
|
*věrovaxъ |
*věrova |
*věrova
|
*věrujǫ |
*věruješi |
*věrujetь
|
| Dual
|
*věrovaxově |
*věrovasta |
*věrovaste
|
*věrujevě |
*věrujeta |
*věrujete
|
| Plural
|
*věrovaxomъ |
*věrovaste |
*věrovašę
|
*věrujemъ |
*věrujete |
*věrujǫtь
|
|
|
Imperfect
|
Imperative
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| Person
|
1st |
2nd |
3rd
|
1st |
2nd |
3rd
|
| Singular
|
*věrovaaxъ |
*věrovaaše |
*věrovaaše
|
— |
*věruji |
*věruji
|
| Dual
|
*věrovaaxově |
*věrovaašeta |
*věrovaašete
|
*věrujivě |
*věrujita |
—
|
| Plural
|
*věrovaaxomъ |
*věrovaašete |
*věrovaaxǫ
|
*věrujimъ |
*věrujite |
—
|
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
- Bezlaj, France (2005) “vẹ́ra”, in Etimološki slovar slovenskega jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Slovenian Language] (in Slovene), volumes 4 (Š – Ž), Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, →ISBN, page 300
- Matasović, Ranko (2021) “vjȅrovati”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 558
