предчувствие

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Russian

Etymology

пред- (pred-) +‎ чу́вство (čúvstvo) +‎ -ие (-ije)

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Noun

предчу́вствие (predčúvstvijen inan (genitive предчу́вствия, nominative plural предчу́вствия, genitive plural предчу́вствий) (pronounced: predčústvije)

  1. foreboding, foreshadowing, presentiment, hunch (a premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen)
    • 1907, Фёдор Сологуб [Fyodor Sologub], chapter II, in Маленький человек; English translation from Paul Selver, transl., The Tiny Man, 1919:
      На перекрё́стке двух у́лиц при све́те фонаре́й он уви́дел иду́щего к нему́ челове́ка, и се́рдце его́ сжа́лось ра́достным предчу́вствием.
      Na perekrjóstke dvux úlic pri svéte fonaréj on uvídel idúščevo k nemú čelovéka, i sérdce jevó sžálosʹ rádostnym predčúvstvijem.
      At a point where two streets crossed, in the lamp-light, he saw a man walking towards him, and his heart throbbed with a joyful foreboding.

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