braś

See also: Braś, bras, BRAS, Brás, brâs, and -bras

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• brasch (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bьrati, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /braɕ/

Verb

braś impf (perfective wześ)

1. to take

Conjugation

Conjugation of braś (imperfective)

Present	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	bjeru, bjerjom	bjerjomej	bjerjomy
2nd person	bjerjoš	bjerjotej	bjerjośo
3rd person	bjerjo	bjerjotej	bjeru
Preterite	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	bjerjech	bjerjechmej	bjerjechmy
2nd person	bjerješo	bjerještej	bjerješćo
3rd person	bjerješo	bjerještej	bjerjechu
Imperative	Singular	Dual	Plural
2nd person	bjeŕ	bjeŕtej	bjeŕśo

Participles

• Present: bjerjecy, bjerucy
• Past active (“ł-form”): brał
• Past passive: brany

Infinitive

braś

Supine

brat

Verbal noun

branje, braśe

Derived terms

• dobraś
• dozebraś
• nabraś
• póbraś
• pśebraś
• pśibraś
• rozebraś
• wobraś
• wótebraś
• wubraś
• zabraś
• zebraś

 

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “braś”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “braś”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag