напасти

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Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

From на- (na-) +‎ пасти (pasti).

Verb

напасти (napasti) (Old East Church Slavonic)

  1. to attack
    • 1581, Ostrog Bible, 1 Maccabees 12.26:
      и посла съзирателѧ въ оплоченїе его и обратишасѧ и возвѣстиша емꙋ ꙗко сице съчинѧются напасти на нѧ нощїю
      i posla sŭziratelę vŭ opločenie ego i obratišasę i vozvěstiša emu jako sice sŭčinęjutsja napasti na nę noštiju
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to fall

Russian

Pronunciation

Noun

напа́сти (napástif inan or f inan pl

  1. inflection of напа́сть (napástʹ):
    1. genitive/dative/prepositional singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From на- +‎ пасти.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nǎpasti/
  • Hyphenation: на‧па‧сти

Verb

на̀пасти pf (Latin spelling nàpasti)

  1. (transitive) to attack, assault

Conjugation

Further reading

  • напасти”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • напасти”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Ukrainian

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Etymology 1

From на- (na-) +‎ па́сти (pásty, to fall). Compare Russian напа́сть (napástʹ), Belarusian напа́сці (napásci), Polish napaść.

Verb

напа́сти (napástypf (imperfective напада́ти) (intransitive, + на + accusative)

  1. to attack, to assault, to descend (on), to fall upon
    Synonyms: атакува́ти pf (atakuváty), наки́нутися pf (nakýnutysja)
  2. to come across, to come upon, to hit on
  3. to assail, to come over (to affect in a sudden manner — feeling, condition, etc.)
    Synonyms: охопи́ти pf (oxopýty), перейня́ти pf (perejnjáty)
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Etymology 2

From на- (na-) +‎ па́сти (pásty, to graze, to pasture, to shepherd).

Verb

напа́сти (napástypf (imperfective напаса́ти or напа́сувати[rare])

  1. (transitive) to graze until full, to pasture until satiety (:livestock, horses)
Conjugation

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