бачыць

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Belarusian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish baczyć (to watch, heed, look), which was formed from *ob-ačiti (from oko (eye)). Cognate with Ukrainian ба́чити (báčyty).

Pronunciation

Verb

ба́чыць (báčycʹimpf (perfective уба́чыць)

  1. (transitive) to see
    • 1978 [1964], Uladzimir Karatkievich, “Дзікае паляванне караля Стаха”, in З вякоў мінулых: апавяданні, аповесці, Мінск: Мастацкая літаратура, page 245; English translation from Mary Mintz, transl., King Stakh's Wild Hunt, Minsk: Yunatstva Publishers, 1989, →ISBN, page 3:
      Я стары, я нават вельмі стары чалавек. І ніякая кніга не дасць вам таго, што на ўласныя вочы бачыў я, Андрэй Беларэцкі, чалавек дзевяноста шасці год.
      Ja stary, ja navat vjelʹmi stary čalavjek. I nijakaja kniha nje dascʹ vam tahó, što na ŭlasnyja vóčy bačyŭ ja, Andrej Bjelarecki, čalavjek dzjevjanósta šasci hod.
      I am an old man, a very old man. No book can give you any idea of what I, Andrei Belaretzky, now a man of 96, have seen with my own eyes.

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References

  • бачыць”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
  • бачыць” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org