претворять

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Russian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прѣтварꙗти (prětvarjati). By surface analysis, пре- (pre-) +‎ тво́р- (tvór-) +‎ -я́ть (-játʹ). Doublet of native dialectal перетворя́ть (peretvorjátʹ).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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претворя́ть (pretvorjátʹimpf (perfective претвори́ть)

  1. to implement
    претворя́ть в жизнь/де́лоpretvorjátʹ v žiznʹ/déloto realize, to implement, to carry out, to put into practice
  2. (obsolete, literary) to turn (into), to change (into), to convert (into)

Conjugation

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