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Russian
Pronunciation
Noun
темнота́ • (temnotá) f inan (genitive темноты́, uncountable)
- dark, darkness (a complete or (more often) partial absence of light)
- Synonyms: тьма f (tʹma), те́мень f (témenʹ), потёмки f (potjómki), мгла f (mgla), мрак m (mrak)
- ignorance, backwardness
- Synonym: тьма f (tʹma)
- obscurity
- Synonyms: тьма f (tʹma), потёмки f (potjómki)
Declension
Ukrainian
Etymology
From те́мний (témnyj) + -о́та́ (-ótá).
Pronunciation
Noun
темнота́ or темно́та • (temnotá or temnóta) f inan (genitive темноти́ or темно́ти, uncountable)
- dark, darkness, obscurity (absence of light)
- Synonym: те́мрява f (témrjava)
- (figurative) darkness (ignorance)
- Synonyms: те́мрява f (témrjava), безгра́мотність f (bezhrámotnistʹ), відста́лість f (vidstálistʹ), неві́гластво n (nevíhlastvo), некульту́рність f (nekulʹtúrnistʹ), неосві́ченість f (neosvíčenistʹ), не́уцтво n (néuctvo)
- (derogatory) benighted one, ignoramus
- Synonyms: неві́глас m (nevíhlas), не́ук m (néuk)
- (obsolete) Synonym of сліпота́ f (slipotá, “blindness”)
Declension
Declension of темнота́, темно́та (inan sg-only hard fem-form accent-d/a)
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singular
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nominative
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темнота́, темно́та temnotá, temnóta
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genitive
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темноти́, темно́ти temnotý, temnóty
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dative
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темноті́, темно́ті temnotí, temnóti
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accusative
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темноту́, темно́ту temnotú, temnótu
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instrumental
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темното́ю, темно́тою temnotóju, temnótoju
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locative
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темноті́, темно́ті temnotí, temnóti
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vocative
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темно́то temnóto
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Further reading
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “темнота”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- A. Rysin, V. Starko, Yu. Marchenko, O. Telemko, et al. (compilers, 2007–2022), “темнота”, in Russian-Ukrainian Dictionaries
- A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “темнота”, in English-Ukrainian Dictionaries
- “темнота”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
- “темнота”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
- “темнота”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)