паче

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pace"

Old Church Slavonic

Adverb

паче • (pače)

1. more

Further reading

• “паче”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2024

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic паче (pače, “more”), comparative of пакы (paky, “again, moreover”), from Proto-Slavic *paky. Compare па́ки (páki).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpat͡ɕe]

Adverb

па́че • (páče)

1. (archaic) more

   Synonym: бо́льше (bólʹše)

   тем па́че ― tem páče ― the more so

   • 1886, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин [Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin], Вяленая вобла; English translation from (Please provide a date or year):

     Затеса́вшись в ряды́ бюрокра́тии, она́ па́че всего́ на канцеля́рской та́йне да на округле́нии пери́одов наста́ивала.

     Zatesávšisʹ v rjadý bjurokrátii, oná páče vsevó na kanceljárskoj tájne da na okruglénii períodov nastáivala.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Related to па̏к.

Adverb

па̀че (Latin spelling pàče)

1. (archaic) moreover, furthermore
2. (archaic) even

Further reading

• “паче”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Etymology 2

Related to па̏тка (“duck”).

Noun

па̏че n (Latin spelling pȁče)

1. duckling

Declension

Declension of паче

	singular
nominative	па̏че
genitive	па̏чета
dative	пачету
accusative	паче
vocative	паче
locative	пачету
instrumental	пачетом

This word has no plural, but the collective noun па̏ча̄д is used instead.

Further reading

• “паче”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024