vakar
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Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
vakar
- (transitive) to scratch
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of vakar
Derived terms[edit]
(With verbal prefixes):
Further reading[edit]
- vakar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
Latvian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably the adverbial form of an earlier (unattested) adjective, of which vakars (“night”) is the nominal form. The original meaning was probably “the previous night”, whence later “yesterday”; compare Russian ве́чер (véčer, “evening”), вчера́ (včerá, “yesterday”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
vakar
- yesterday (in the day before today)
- vakar bija slikts laiks ― yesterday the weather was bad
- vakar no rīta ― yesterday morning
- vakar vakarā ― yesterday evening
- “jaunkundze vakar vēlu pārnāca mājās?” “jā, aizgājām no kluba pie Ralfa spēlēt pokeru” ― “milady came back late yesterday?” “yes, I went from the club to Ralph's (place) to play poker”
- yesterday (in the, usually recent, past)
- funkcionāri šodien ir vienkāršāki, demokrātiskāki nekā vakar ― (public) officials are simpler, more democratic today than yesterday
Usage notes[edit]
Vakars as a noun, means “evening” (locative form vakarā “in the evening”, used also as a temporal adverb) while historically related vakar is an adverb, meaning “yesterday” (its nominal counterpart is vakardiena “(the day of) yesterday”).
Antonyms[edit]
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Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) , “vakars”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Lithuanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From vakaras. Compare Russian вечер (večer) and вчера (včera).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
vãkar (not comparable)
Derived terms[edit]
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
vakar
- indefinite plural of vak
Verb[edit]
vakar
- present tense of vaka.
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