вякать

Russian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wékʷ-ti, from *wekʷ- (“to speak”). Cognate with Slovene vékati, Sanskrit वक्ति (vakti)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvʲakətʲ]

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Verb

вя́кать • (vjákatʹ) impf (perfective вя́кнуть)

1. (low colloquial) to make noise (e.g. of a pet)
2. (low colloquial) to complain, to whimper
3. (low colloquial) to blather, to talk nonsense
4. (low colloquial) to blurt out (to say without thinking)

Conjugation

Conjugation of вя́кать (class 1a imperfective intransitive)

Note: For declension of participles, see their entries. Adverbial participles are indeclinable.

imperfective aspect
infinitive	вя́кать vjákatʹ
participles	present tense	past tense
active	вя́кающий vjákajuščij	вя́кавший vjákavšij
passive	—	—
adverbial	вя́кая vjákaja	вя́кав vjákav, вя́кавши vjákavši
	present tense	future tense
1st singular (я)	вя́каю vjákaju	бу́ду вя́кать búdu vjákatʹ
2nd singular (ты)	вя́каешь vjákaješʹ	бу́дешь вя́кать búdešʹ vjákatʹ
3rd singular (он/она́/оно́)	вя́кает vjákajet	бу́дет вя́кать búdet vjákatʹ
1st plural (мы)	вя́каем vjákajem	бу́дем вя́кать búdem vjákatʹ
2nd plural (вы)	вя́каете vjákajete	бу́дете вя́кать búdete vjákatʹ
3rd plural (они́)	вя́кают vjákajut	бу́дут вя́кать búdut vjákatʹ
imperative	singular	plural
	вя́кай vjákaj	вя́кайте vjákajte
past tense	singular	plural (мы/вы/они́)
masculine (я/ты/он)	вя́кал vjákal	вя́кали vjákali
feminine (я/ты/она́)	вя́кала vjákala
neuter (оно́)	вя́кало vjákalo

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вякать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress