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Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic врѣмѧ (vrěmę), from Proto-Slavic *vermę < *vertmen, from Proto-Indo-European *wertmen. Displaced native Old East Slavic веремѧ (veremę). Cognate with Sanskrit वर्त्मन् (vártman, “track, course”).
See also pleophony (CeRC > CeReC) and liquid metathesis (CeRC > CReC, CRēC).
Pronunciation
Noun
вре́мя • (vrémja) n inan (genitive вре́мени, nominative plural времена́, genitive plural времён, relational adjective временно́й, diminutive вре́мечко)
- time
- вре́мя го́да ― vrémja góda ― season
- во вре́мя ― vo vrémja ― during
- в настоя́щее вре́мя ― v nastojáščeje vrémja ― at present
- в ско́ром вре́мени ― v skórom vrémeni ― soon
- в то же вре́мя ― v to že vrémja ― at that same time
- за после́днее вре́мя ― za poslédneje vrémja ― recently
- вре́мя от вре́мени ― vrémja ot vrémeni ― from time to time
- ско́лько вре́мени? ― skólʹko vrémeni? ― how long?; what time is it?
- по ме́стному вре́мени ― po méstnomu vrémeni ― (by) local time
- в режи́ме реа́льного вре́мени ― v režíme reálʹnovo vrémeni ― (in) real time
- У меня́ вре́мени в обре́з. ― U menjá vrémeni v obréz. ― I have just enough time. / I have no time to spare.
- свободное вре́мя ― svobodnoje vrémja ― free time / leisure
- (grammar) tense
Declension
For declension of врѣ́мя (vrě́mja) see its entry.
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References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “время”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “время”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 170