-ествовать

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Russian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

-ество (-estvo) +‎ -овать (-ovatʹ)

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (unstressed) IPA(key): [ʲɪstvəvətʲ]
  • (stressed) IPA(key): [ʲɪstvɐˈvatʲ]

Suffix[edit]

-ествовать or -ествова́ть (-estvovatʹ or -estvovátʹ)

  1. Alternative form of -ствовать (-stvovatʹ)
    нали́чие (nalíčije, availability, presence) + ‎-ествовать (-estvovatʹ) → ‎нали́чествовать (nalíčestvovatʹ, to be on hand, to be present)

Usage notes[edit]

  • This suffix is used in the same contexts that the suffix -ество (-estvo) is used in place of -ство (-stvo): particularly after the hushing consonants ч ж ш щ, which may result from the Slavic first palatalization applied to nouns whose roots end in к/ц г х ск respectively (or which originally ended in one of these consonants, cf. князь (knjazʹ) < Proto-Germanic *kuningaz).

Conjugation[edit]

unstressed:

stressed:

Derived terms[edit]