тётя
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See also: тетя
Russian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old East Slavic тета (teta), from Proto-Slavic *teta.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]тётя • (tjótja) f anim (genitive тёти, nominative plural тёти, genitive plural тёть or тётей, diminutive тётенька or тётушка, pejorative тётка)
- aunt
- 1930, Владимир Набоков [Vladimir Nabokov], chapter 4, in Защита Лужина, Berlin: Слово; English translation from Michael Scammell in collaboration with the author, transl., The Luzhin Defense, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1964:
- В нача́ле ле́тних кани́кул о́чень недостава́ло тёти и старика́ с цвета́ми, — осо́бенно э́того души́стого старика́, па́хнувшего то фиа́лкой, то ла́ндышем, в зави́симости от тех цвето́в, кото́рые он приноси́л тёте.
- V načále létnix kaníkul óčenʹ nedostaválo tjóti i stariká s cvetámi, — osóbenno étovo dušístovo stariká, páxnuvševo to fiálkoj, to lándyšem, v zavísimosti ot tex cvetóv, kotóryje on prinosíl tjóte.
- At the beginning of the summer holidays he had sorely missed his aunt and the old gentleman with the bunch of flowers—especially that fragrant old man smelling at times of violets and at times of lilies of the valley, depending upon what flowers he had brought to Luzhin’s aunt.
- (colloquial) woman, lady; auntie
Declension
[edit]Declension of тётя (anim fem-form soft-stem accent-a irreg)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | тётя tjótja |
тёти tjóti |
genitive | тёти tjóti |
тёть, тётей△ tjótʹ, tjótej△ |
dative | тёте tjóte |
тётям tjótjam |
accusative | тётю tjótju |
тёть, тётей△ tjótʹ, tjótej△ |
instrumental | тётей, тётею tjótej, tjóteju |
тётями tjótjami |
prepositional | тёте tjóte |
тётях tjótjax |
vocative | тёть* tjótʹ* |
△ Irregular.
* Colloquial.
Pre-reform declension of тётя (anim fem-form soft-stem accent-a irreg)
Descendants
[edit]See also
[edit]- дя́дя (djádja)
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