Ukrainian

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Etymology

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From поверну́ти (povernúty) +‎ -ся (-sja). Compare Russian поверну́ться (povernútʹsja), Belarusian павярну́цца (pavjarnúcca).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [pɔʋerˈnutesʲɐ]
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Verb

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поверну́тися (povernútysjapf (imperfective поверта́тися)

  1. to turn
    поверну́тися спи́ною до (+ genitive)povernútysja spýnoju doto turn one's back on/to
  2. to return, to go back, to come back
    поверну́тися додо́муpovernútysja dodómuto return home, to go (back) home, to come (back) home

Conjugation

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In the second- and third-person singular forms and the plural forms of the future tense, the standard stress falls on the stem (corresponding to stress pattern 'c').[1] Nonstandard ending-stressed variants of these forms (corresponding to stress pattern 'b') are also shown in some online conjugation tables.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2022), “повернутися”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 13 (підку́са – покі́рно), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
  2. ^ повернутися”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
  3. ^ повернутися”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)

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