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Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech chřadnúti, from Proto-Slavic *xrędnǫti.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
chřadnout impf (perfective zchřadnout)
- to waste away, to wither away, to pine away, to languish
- Synonyms: chátrat, scházet, slábnout, skomírat, hynout
- Bez vitamínů tělo chřadne. ― Without vitamins, the body withers.
- Město živořilo a chřadlo. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- Květiny v přetopené místnosti chřadly. ― The flowers withered in the overheated room.
Conjugation
Conjugation
| The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive chřadnout. |
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References
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xrędnǫti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 94
Further reading
- “chřadnouti”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “chřadnouti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “chřadnout”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)