glědaś

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ględati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɪ.daɕ/
• Rhymes: -ɪdaɕ
• Syllabification: glě‧daś

Verb

glědaś impf (perfective póglědaś)

1. to look, glance

Conjugation

Conjugation of glědaś (imperfective)

Present	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	glědam	glědamej	glědamy
2nd person	glědaš	glědatej	glědaśo
3rd person	glěda	glědatej	glědaju
Preterite	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	glědach	glědachmej	glědachmy
2nd person	glědašo	glědaštej	glědašćo
3rd person	glědašo	glědaštej	glědachu
Imperative	Singular	Dual	Plural
2nd person	glědaj	glědajtej	glědajśo

Participles

• Present: glědajucy
• Past active (“ł-form”): glědał
• Past passive: glědany

Infinitive

glědaś

Supine

glědat

Verbal noun

glědanje

• Note: The imperative forms also generally function as the imperatives of wiźeś. Short forms of the imperatives are also frequently found: singular glej, dual glejtej, and plural glejśo.

Derived terms

• woglědaś pf (“to look at, observe”)

Further reading

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