геверни

Pannonian Rusyn

Adapted borrowing of Hungarian hever +‎ -ни (-ni), possibly via a semantic shift of earlier Old Slovak heverný (“(of cattle) not used for sledding, intended for breeding”).

геверни (heverni) (abstract noun геверносц) (not comparable)

idle
not doing work, not working
Synonym: безроботни (bezrobotni)

нєшка швето, та людзе геверни ― nješka šveto, ta ljudze heverni ― today is a holiday, so people aren't working
spare, free (not in use)
геверни годзини ― heverni hodzini ― spare hours

маце єден геверни карсцель? ― mace jeden heverni karscelʹ? ― do you have one spare chair?
ready (prepared for immediate action or use)
нє мам геверни пенєжи ― nje mam heverni penježi ― I don't have ready money
on sale, for sale
у валалє нєт геверней жеми ― u valalje njet hevernej žemi ― in the village there is no land for sale

nouns

verbs

геверни (heverni) m pers (female equivalent геверна, related adjective гевернїцки)

Declension of геверни

	singular	plural
nominative	геверни heverni	геверни heverni
genitive	геверного hevernoho	геверних hevernix
dative	геверному hevernomu	геверним hevernim
accusative	геверного hevernoho	геверних hevernix
instrumental	геверним hevernim	гевернима hevernima
locative	геверним / геверному hevernim / hevernomu	геверних hevernix
vocative	геверни heverni	геверни heverni

Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M., Timko-Djitko, O. (2010) “геверни”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк [Rusyn-Serbian Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy
Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “idle”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк [English-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 142