сотня
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Russian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
со́тня • (sótnja) f inan (genitive со́тни, nominative plural со́тни, genitive plural со́тен)
- a hundred
- 1904, Леонид Андреев, “Отрывок десятый”, in Красный смех; English translation from Alexandra Linden, transl., The Red Laugh, London: T. Fisher, 1905:
- Я не понимаю войны и должен сойти с ума, как брат, как сотни людей, которых привозят оттуда.
- Ja ne ponimaju vojny i dolžen sojti s uma, kak brat, kak sotni ljudej, kotoryx privozjat ottuda.
- I do not understand war, and I must go mad, like my brother, like the hundreds of men that are sent back from there.
- (historical) sotnia, company (Cossack military unit)
- Чёрная со́тня ― Čórnaja sótnja ― Black Hundreds
Declension
Declension of со́тня (inan fem-form soft-stem accent-a reduc)
Pre-reform declension of со́тня (inan fem-form soft-stem accent-a reduc)
Related terms
- сто (sto)
References
- Shaposhnikov, A. K. (2010) “сотня”, in Этимологический словарь современного русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Contemporary Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 2: (Начать – Я), Moscow: Flinta; Nauka, →ISBN, page 360
Ukrainian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
со́тня • (sótnja) f inan (genitive со́тні, nominative plural со́тні, genitive plural со́тень)
- hundred
- со́тні ти́сяч люде́й ― sótni týsjač ljudéj ― hundreds of thousands of people
- (historical) sotnia, company (Cossack military unit)
Declension
Declension of со́тня (inan soft fem-form accent-a reduc)
Further reading
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “сотня”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- “сотня”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
- “сотня”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
- “сотня”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)