dawaś

See also: dawas

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *davati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.waɕ/
• Rhymes: -awaɕ
• Syllabification: da‧waś

Verb

dawaś impf (perfective daś)

1. give (transfer the possession of something to someone else)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dawaś (imperfective)

Present	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	dawam	dawamej	dawamy
2nd person	dawaš	dawatej	dawaśo
3rd person	dawa	dawatej	dawaju
Preterite	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	dawach	dawachmej	dawachmy
2nd person	dawašo	dawaštej	dawašćo
3rd person	dawašo	dawaštej	dawachu
Imperative	Singular	Dual	Plural
2nd person	dawaj	dawajtej	dawajśo

Participles

• Present: dawajucy
• Past active (“ł-form”): dawał
• Past passive: dawany

Infinitive

dawaś

Supine

dawat

Verbal noun

dawanje

Further reading

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