дюжий

Russian

Etymology

Vasmer suggests a variant of dialectal ду́жий (dúžij, “strong”), cognate with Ukrainian ду́жий (dúžyj, “powerful, strong”), Polish duży (“big, strong”), dużo (“a lot”), and more distantly with Lithuanian daũg (“a lot”), Latvian daũdz (“a lot”), padūgt (“to have the opportunity”), Gothic 𐌳𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (dugan, “to suit”), German taugen (“to suit”), Tugend (“virtue”), Ancient Greek τυγχάνω (tunkhánō, “to encounter, to come upon”), Old Irish dúal (“suitable”). Others see a relation with Proto-Slavic *dęg-, as in dialectal дя́гнуть (djágnutʹ, “to recover, to improve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdʲuʐɨj]

Adjective

дю́жий • (djúžij) (comparative (по)дю́жее or (по)дю́жей)

1. (low colloquial) hefty, stout
2. (low colloquial) very strong

Declension

Declension of дю́жий (short class c)

		masculine	neuter	feminine	plural
nominative		дю́жий djúžij	дю́жее djúžeje	дю́жая djúžaja	дю́жие djúžije
genitive		дю́жего djúževo		дю́жей djúžej	дю́жих djúžix
dative		дю́жему djúžemu		дю́жей djúžej	дю́жим djúžim
accusative	animate	дю́жего djúževo	дю́жее djúžeje	дю́жую djúžuju	дю́жих djúžix
	inanimate	дю́жий djúžij			дю́жие djúžije
instrumental		дю́жим djúžim		дю́жей, дю́жею djúžej, djúžeju	дю́жими djúžimi
prepositional		дю́жем djúžem		дю́жей djúžej	дю́жих djúžix
short form		дюж djuž	дю́же djúže	дюжа́ djužá	дю́жи djúži

Derived terms

• дю́же (djúže)
• дю́жесть (djúžestʹ)
• дю́жить (djúžitʹ)
• дюже́ть impf (djužétʹ), раздюже́ть pf (razdjužétʹ)