опять
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *opętь. Cognates include Czech opět and Serbo-Croatian opet.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]опя́ть • (opjátʹ)
- again (occurring another time)
- Synonym: сно́ва (snóva)
- 1924, Михаил Булгаков [Mikhail Bulgakov], “V. Дьявольский фокус”, in Дьяволиада; English translation from K. M. Cook-Horujy, transl., Diaboliad, Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1990:
- Лифт останови́лся, вы́плюнул челове́ка с портфе́лем, закры́лся се́ткой и опя́ть ушё́л вниз.
- Lift ostanovílsja, výpljunul čelovéka s portfélem, zakrýlsja sétkoj i opjátʹ ušól vniz.
- The lift stopped, spat out a man with a briefcase, pulled the bars over its face and went down again.
- (usually in the combination опя́ть же (opjátʹ že)) again (used when re-emphasising something already stated)
Derived terms
[edit]- опя́ть-таки (opjátʹ-taki)
- Phrases
- никогда́ тако́го не́ было, и вот опя́ть (nikogdá takóvo né bylo, i vot opjátʹ)
- (Rhymed formulas:) опя́ть два́дцать пять (opjátʹ dvádcatʹ pjatʹ)
Descendants
[edit]- Polish: apiać
Further reading
[edit]- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “опять”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
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