песня

See also: пєсна and песна

Belarusian

Alternative forms

• пе́сьня (pjésʹnja) — Taraškievica orthography
• pieśnia — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pěsnь, adapted to the common ending -ня (-nja).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʲesʲnʲa]

• Audio:

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Noun

пе́сня • (pjésnja) f inan (genitive пе́сні, nominative plural пе́сні, genitive plural пе́сень, relational adjective пе́сенны, diminutive пе́сенька)

1. song

   Які́я вы лю́біце пе́сні? (formal) ― Jakíja vy ljúbicje pjésni? ― What kind of songs do you like?

Declension

Declension of пе́сня (inan soft fem-form accent-a reduc)

	singular	plural
nominative	пе́сня pjésnja	пе́сні pjésni
genitive	пе́сні pjésni	пе́сень pjésjenʹ
dative	пе́сні pjésni	пе́сням pjésnjam
accusative	пе́сню pjésnju	пе́сні pjésni
instrumental	пе́сняй, пе́сняю pjésnjaj, pjésnjaju	пе́снямі pjésnjami
locative	пе́сні pjésni	пе́снях pjésnjax
count form	—	пе́сні1 pjésni1

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

References

• “песня” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
• “песня”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)

Russian

Alternative forms

• пѣ́сня (pě́snja) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
• пестня (pestnja), песьня (pesʹnja) — rare misspellings

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pěsnь, adapted to the common ending -ня (-nja).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʲesʲnʲə]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

пе́сня • (pésnja) f inan (genitive пе́сни, nominative plural пе́сни, genitive plural пе́сен, relational adjective пе́сенный, diminutive пе́сенка)

1. song

   Synonym: (dated or poetic) песнь (pesnʹ)

   С пе́сней по жи́зни ― S pésnej po žízni ― Not a day without a song. (motto)

   лебеди́ная пе́сня ― lebedínaja pésnja ― swan song

   до́лгая пе́сня ― dólgaja pésnja ― long story

   ста́рая пе́сня ― stáraja pésnja ― same old story

   отде́льная пе́сня ― otdélʹnaja pésnja ― something special

2. (colloquial) something very good, very cool

   Твоя́ но́вая маши́на — про́сто пе́сня! ― Tvojá nóvaja mašína — prósto pésnja! ― Your new car really rocks!

3. (Eastern Orthodoxy) canticle

Declension

Declension of пе́сня (inan fem-form soft-stem accent-a reduc) 

	singular	plural
nominative	пе́сня pésnja	пе́сни pésni
genitive	пе́сни pésni	пе́сен pésen
dative	пе́сне pésne	пе́сням pésnjam
accusative	пе́сню pésnju	пе́сни pésni
instrumental	пе́сней, пе́снею pésnej, pésneju	пе́снями pésnjami
prepositional	пе́сне pésne	пе́снях pésnjax

Derived terms

• песнетво́рец (pesnetvórec, “songwriter”)