подражать

Russian

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Etymology

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Probably literally, to go the same path that someone has gone, or more loosely translated as to follow in someone's footsteps, from Old Church Slavonic дра́га (drága, road, path, way) (see доро́га (doróga)). Over time, the meaning shifted to "to reproduce something or someone's actions".

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [pədrɐˈʐatʲ]
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Verb

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подража́ть (podražátʹimpf

  1. to imitate, to copy, to ape [with dative ‘someone’]
    Ви́тя подража́ет ста́ршему бра́ту во всём.
    Vítja podražájet stáršemu brátu vo vsjom.
    Vitya imitates (his) elder brother in everything.

Conjugation

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Further reading

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