жизнь
Old Church Slavonic
Noun
жизнь • (žiznĭ) f
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic жизнь (žiznĭ).
Pronunciation
Noun
жизнь • (žiznʹ) f inan (genitive жи́зни, nominative plural жи́зни, genitive plural жи́зней)
- life
- practice
- претворя́ть/претвори́ть в жизнь/де́ло ― pretvorjátʹ/pretvorítʹ v žiznʹ/délo ― to realize, to implement, to carry out, to put into practice
Declension
Pre-reform declension of жизнь (inan fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a)
Synonyms
- житьё (žitʹjó) (colloquial)
- житие́ (žitijé) (philosophical, ecclesiastic)
- жисть (žistʹ) (regional, informal and colloquial humorous)
Related terms
- жить (žitʹ)
- жизнеспосо́бность f (žiznesposóbnostʹ)
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- Old Church Slavonic lemmas
- Old Church Slavonic nouns
- Old Church Slavonic feminine nouns
- Russian terms borrowed from Old Church Slavonic
- Russian terms derived from Old Church Slavonic
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- Russian lemmas
- Russian nouns
- Russian feminine nouns
- Russian inanimate nouns
- Russian terms with usage examples
- Russian 3rd-declension feminine-form nouns
- Russian 3rd-declension feminine-form accent-a nouns
- Russian nouns with accent pattern a