разве
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Russian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- ра́звѣ (rázvě) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic развѣ (razvě, “only, besides”), from Proto-Slavic *orzvě.
Displaced Old East Slavic розвѣ (rozvě)
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
ра́зве • (rázve)
- really
- (colloquial) perhaps (often used in rhetorical questions)
- (colloquial) only
- (colloquial) unless
- Я непреме́нно э́то сде́лаю, ра́зве заболе́ю.
- Ja nepreménno éto sdélaju, rázve zaboléju.
- I will certainly do it unless I get sick.
- ра́зве что, ра́зве то́лько ― rázve što, rázve tólʹko ― except perhaps
Synonyms[edit]
- неуже́ли (neužéli), пра́вда ли (právda li)
- возмо́жно (vozmóžno)
Further reading[edit]
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “разве”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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