някога
Bulgarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Slavic *někъgъda (“sometime”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ня́кога • (njákoga) (not comparable)
Alternative forms
[edit]- ня́когда (njákogda), ня́коги (njákogi) — obsolete, archaic
- некога (nekoga) — dialectal
- някога́ш (njakogáš) — dialectal
Derived terms
[edit]- донякога (donjakoga, “until some time”)
- понякога (ponjakoga, “sometimes”)
- някогашен (njakogašen, “erstwhile”)
Related terms
[edit]- всякога (vsjakoga, “always”)
- никога (nikoga, “never”)
- сега (sega, “now, at present”)
- тогава (togava, “then”)
References
[edit]- “някога”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “някога”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 728