предать

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Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прѣдати (prědati), from Proto-Slavic *perdati, from *per- + *dati. Doublet of переда́ть (peredátʹ).

Pronunciation

Verb

преда́ть (predátʹpf (imperfective предава́ть)

  1. to betray
    • 2011, Виктор Пелевин , “Ч. 1. Damsel in distress, 1”, in S.N.U.F.F.; English translation from Andrew Bromfield, transl., S.N.U.F.F., 2014:
      Кто́-то вбил им в го́лову, что ка́ждое их поколе́ние обяза́тельно предаёт предыду́щее, и страх пре́дков стал у них подо́бием коллекти́вного невро́за.
      Któ-to vbil im v gólovu, što káždoje ix pokolénije objazátelʹno predajót predydúščeje, i strax prédkov stal u nix podóbijem kollektívnovo nevróza.
      Someone once hammered it into their heads that each generation inevitably betrays the one before it, and fear of their ancestors has assumed the proportions of a collective neurosis for them.
  2. to expose, to subject, to commit, to hand over, to put

Conjugation