разве
Russian edit
Alternative forms edit
- ра́звѣ (rázvě) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic развѣ (razvě, “only, besides”), from Proto-Slavic *orzvě.
Displaced Old East Slavic розвѣ (rozvě)
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
ра́зве • (rázve)
- really
- (colloquial) perhaps (often used in rhetorical questions)
- (colloquial) only
- (colloquial) unless
Synonyms edit
- неуже́ли (neužéli), пра́вда ли (právda li)
- возмо́жно (vozmóžno)
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “разве”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress