Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

vak +‎ -ar

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɒkɒr]
  • Hyphenation: va‧kar
  • Rhymes: -ɒr

Verb edit

vakar

  1. (transitive) to scratch

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

(With verbal prefixes):

Further reading edit

  • vakar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Latgalian edit

Etymology edit

Cognate with Latvian vakar and Lithuanian vakar.

Related to vokors (night), with the original meaning being similar to "the previous night".

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈvakàr]
  • Hyphenation: va‧kar

Adverb edit

vakar

  1. yesterday

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 112

Latvian edit

Etymology edit

Probably the adverbial form of an earlier (unattested) adjective, of which vakars (night) is the nominal form. The original meaning was probably “the previous night”, whence later “yesterday”; compare Russian ве́чер (véčer, evening), вчера́ (včerá, yesterday).[1]

Pronunciation edit

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Adverb edit

vakar

  1. yesterday (in the day before today)
    vakar bija slikts laiksyesterday the weather was bad
    vakar no rītayesterday morning
    vakar vakarāyesterday evening
    “jaunkundze vakar vēlu pārnāca mājās?” “jā, aizgājām no kluba pie Ralfa spēlēt pokeru”“milady came back late yesterday?” “yes, I went from the club to Ralph's (place) to play poker”
  2. yesterday (in the, usually recent, past)
    funkcionāri šodien ir vienkāršāki, demokrātiskāki nekā vakar(public) officials are simpler, more democratic today than yesterday

Usage notes edit

Vakars as a noun, means “evening” (locative form vakarā “in the evening”, used also as a temporal adverb) while historically related vakar is an adverb, meaning “yesterday” (its nominal counterpart is vakardiena “(the day of) yesterday”).

Antonyms edit

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Related terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “vakars”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Lithuanian edit

Etymology edit

From vakaras. Compare Russian вечер (večer) and вчера (včera).

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

vãkar (not comparable)

  1. yesterday
    Vakar kur buvai?
    Where were you yesterday?

Derived terms edit

See also edit

Dates relative to today in Lithuanian (layout · text)
–3 –2 –1 0 +1 +2 +3
direct speech three days ago two days ago yesterday today tomorrow in two days in three days
užužvakar užvakar vakar šiandien rytoj poryt užporyt
reported speech three days before, three days earlier two days before, two days earlier the day before on that day the next day two days later three days later
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Further reading edit

  • vakar”, in lkz.lt [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024

Swedish edit

Noun edit

vakar

  1. indefinite plural of vak

Verb edit

vakar

  1. present indicative of vaka