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Russian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old East Slavic чересъ (čeresŭ), from Proto-Slavic *čersъ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert-. Doublet of чрез (črez), a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic.
Preposition
че́рез • (čérez)
- through
- across, over
- (time) in, after
- че́рез семь мину́т по́сле отхо́да ― čérez semʹ minút pósle otxóda ― seven minutes after departure
- via
- до Киева через Москву́ ― do Kijeva čerez Moskvú ― to Kiev via Moscow
- with, with the help of
- every other
В фи́нском ударе́ние па́дает че́рез слог.- V fínskom udarénije pádajet čérez slog.
- In Finnish stress falls every other syllable.
- (dated, poetic) because of
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čersъ.
Noun
че́рез • (čérez) m inan (genitive че́реза, nominative plural че́резы, genitive plural че́резов)
- (obsolete) leather belt with purse for money, bysack-girdle, money belt
1868, Нестор Кукольник, Иоанн III, собиратель земли русской:А дьяка Истому совсем не признать в приказчике, запоясанном по кожану здоровым черезом, чуть не с аршинными кожаными ж варягами на руках, привыкших к калыму письменному.- A dʹjaka Istomu sovsem ne priznatʹ v prikazčike, zapojasannom po kožanu zdorovym čerezom, čutʹ ne s aršinnymi kožanymi ž varjagami na rukax, privykšix k kalymu pisʹmennomu.
- But Dyak Istoma one can hardly recognize in the clerk, girdled before the leather-coat with a great bysack-belt, almost with sprawled leather Vikings on the hands, wont of written grafts.
Declension
References
Serbo-Croatian
Preposition
через (Latin spelling čerez) (+ genitive case)
- (dialectal) because of, for the sake of
Ukrainian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic чересъ (čeresŭ), from Proto-Slavic *čersъ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert-.
Pronunciation
Preposition
че́рез • (čérez) (+ accusative case)
- across, over (from one side to the other of)
- through
- Synonym: крізь (krizʹ)
- via
- through, with (means)
- because of, due to (but it doesn't translate out of and of to express cause, e.g., "He died of cancer", Він помер від раку; "I fainted out of fear", Я знепритомнів від страху; moreover, it doesn't translate "because", тому що)
- Synonyms: вна́слідок (vnáslidok), завдяки́ (zavdjaký)
- in, after (time)
Further reading
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “через”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- A. Rysin, V. Starko, Yu. Marchenko, O. Telemko, et al. (compilers, 2007–2022), “через”, in Russian-Ukrainian Dictionaries
- A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “через”, in English-Ukrainian Dictionaries
- “через”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
- “через”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)