чацвер

Belarusian

Alternative forms

• чацьве́р (čacʹvjér) — Taraškievica orthography
• čaćvier — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Etymology

Presumably from earlier *чацве́рг (*čacvjérh), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *četvьrtъkъ. The dropped -г (-h) in the nominative is retained in inflections of the word. Compare also Ukrainian четве́р (četvér) for this phenomenon, as well as дзе (dzje) and Ukrainian де (de) for word-initial h-dropping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʂat͡sʲˈvʲer]

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Noun

чацве́р • (čacvjér) m inan (genitive чацвярга́, nominative plural чацвяргі́, genitive plural чацвярго́ў)

1. Thursday

Declension

Declension of чацве́р (inan velar masc-form accent-b irreg-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	чацве́р čacvjér	чацвяргі́ čacvjarhí
genitive	чацвярга́ čacvjarhá	чацвярго́ў čacvjarhóŭ
dative	чацвяргу́ čacvjarhú	чацвярга́м čacvjarhám
accusative	чацве́р čacvjér	чацвяргі́ čacvjarhí
instrumental	чацвярго́м čacvjarhóm	чацвярга́мі čacvjarhámi
locative	чацвяргу́ čacvjarhú	чацвярга́х čacvjarháx
count form	—	чацвяргі́1 čacvjarhí1

¹Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

See also

• days of the week (appendix): панядзе́лак (panjadzjélak) · аўто́рак (aŭtórak) · серада́ (sjeradá) · чацве́р (čacvjér) · пя́тніца (pjátnica) · субо́та (subóta) · нядзе́ля (njadzjélja) ^[edit]

References

• “чацвер” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org