вопреки
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- вопрѣки́ (voprěkí) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic въпрѣкꙑ (vŭprěky), from Proto-Slavic *реr-kъ, whose first element comes from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- and is thus cognate with English for. Cognates include Bulgarian въ́преки (vǎ́preki).
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]вопреки́ • (voprekí) [with dative]
- in spite of, contrary to
- вопреки́ распространённому мне́нию, лу́чшие рестора́ны Франции нахо́дятся во́все не в Париже
- voprekí rasprostranjónnomu mnéniju, lúčšije restorány Francii naxódjatsja vóvse ne v Pariže
- contrary to popular belief, the best French restaurants are nowhere around Paris
- судьи, вопреки́ прогно́зам ске́птиков, префере́нций хозя́евам не де́лали
- sudʹi, voprekí prognózam sképtikov, preferéncij xozjájevam ne délali
- judges, in spite of the skeptics' forecast, did not favour/favor the owner
- 1880, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин, “Племяннушка”, in Господа Головлёвы; English translation from I. P. Foote, transl., The Golovlevs, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986:
- Вопреки ожиданиям Петеньки, Порфирий Владимирыч вынес материнское проклятие довольно спокойно и ни на волос не отступил от тех решений, которые, так сказать, всегда готовые сидели в его голове.
- Vopreki ožidanijam Petenʹki, Porfirij Vladimiryč vynes materinskoje prokljatije dovolʹno spokojno i ni na volos ne otstupil ot tex rešenij, kotoryje, tak skazatʹ, vsegda gotovyje sideli v jevo golove.
- Contrary to Petenka’s expectations, Porfiry Vladimirych took his mother’s curse quite calmly and budged not the slightest from those decisions which were, so to speak, always at the ready in his mind.
Derived terms
[edit]- вопреки́ всему́ (voprekí vsemú)
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