versta

English

Noun

versta (plural verstas or versty)

1. Alternative form of verst.
   • 1985, Dinah Dean, chapter 2, in The River of Time, [United States]: Cover & Page, published 2022, →ISBN:

     The new and, to Mila, welcome détente almost came to an untimely end in Torzhok, where Varya insisted on stopping for ‘an hour or so’ to buy gloves, boots and slippers from the famous leather-workers of the town, despite Maxim’s terse remark that they were still about 60 versty from Tver, where the jäger had recommended they stay for dinner and lodging.

   • 1997, Abby M. Schrader, “Containing the Spectacle of Punishment: The Russian Autocracy and the Abolition of the Knout, 1817–1845”, in Slavic Review, volume 56, numbers 3–4, Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 640:

     The law mandated that provincial authorities resettle those who had committed a criminal offense 60 versty (63.6 kilometers) from the nearest provincial city, while it allowed free volunteers to return home, but only under guard.

   • 1999, Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna, translated by Joseph T. Fuhrmann, The Complete Wartime Correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra: April 1914–March 1917, London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 377:

     We arrived at another village, this is 8 versty [1 versta = 3500 ft.] to the southwest—it is more convenient for us here because we are stationed alone[, i.e., apart from the other units in this area] and are all together, and there are 2 companions there and machine guns are placed every 3 and 6 versty.

   • 2025, Alexander Wolfheze, “Russia”, in A Traditionalist History of the Great War, Book III: Into The Abyss, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Armies and Navies), page 451:

     [A]s soon as one travelled more than a hundred versty from any of [the] country’s larger cities, all political issues simply vanished into utter silence.

Anagrams

• averts, ravest, starve, tarves, traves, vaster

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

versta

1. inflection of verstaan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative
   4. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive

Anagrams

• verast

Ingrian

Alternative forms

• virsta

Etymology

Borrowed from Old East Slavic вьрста (vĭrsta). Cognates include Finnish virsta.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋerstɑ/, [ˈʋe̞rs̠t]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋerstɑ/, [ˈʋe̞rʃtɑ]
• Rhymes: -erst, -erstɑ
• Hyphenation: vers‧ta

Noun

versta

1. verst
2. (colloquial, informal) synonym of kilometra

Declension

Declension of versta (type 3/kana, st-ss gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	versta	verssat
genitive	verssan	verstoin
partitive	verstaa	verstoja
illative	verstaa	verstoi
inessive	verssaas	verssois
elative	verssast	verssoist
allative	verssalle	verssoille
adessive	verssaal	verssoil
ablative	verssalt	verssoilt
translative	verssaks	verssoiks
essive	verstanna, verstaan	verstoinna, verstoin
exessive1)	verstant	verstoint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

See also

Traditional Ingrian units of length

(part)	500		1⁄3	≈ 1⁄3	2⁄9	1⁄7	1⁄12	1⁄21	1⁄84
native name	versta	syli	arššina	harkkamus	kyynärä	jalka	vaaksa	käsi	djuima
SI equivalent	1.07 km.	2.13 m.	71.1 cm.	71.0 cm	47.4 cm.	30.5 cm.	17.8 cm.	10.2 cm.	2.54 cm.

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 657

Portuguese

Noun

versta f (plural verstas)

1. verst; versta (Russian unit of length equivalent to 1.07 kilometers)

Further reading

• “versta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “versta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Noun

versta f (plural verstas)

1. verst; versta (Russian unit of length equivalent to 1.07 kilometers)

Further reading

• “versta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025