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Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic развѣ (razvě, “only, besides”), from Proto-Slavic *orzvě.
Displaced Old East Slavic розвѣ (rozvě)
Pronunciation
Adverb
ра́зве • (rázve)
- really
— Он там был. — Ра́зве?- — On tam byl. — Rázve?
- "He was there." "Really?"
- (colloquial) perhaps (often used in rhetorical questions)
Ра́зве ты не зна́ешь?- Rázve ty ne znáješʹ?
- Don't you know?
- (colloquial) only
- (colloquial) unless
- ра́зве что, ра́зве то́лько ― rázve što, rázve tólʹko ― except perhaps
Кино́ я не смотрю́, ра́зве что коме́дии.- Kinó ja ne smotrjú, rázve što komédii.
- I don't watch any films except comedies, maybe.
Synonyms
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “разве”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress