vakar

Hungarian

Etymology

vak + -ar

Pronunciation

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

Verb

vakar

  1. (transitive) to scratch

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • vakarás

(With verbal prefixes):

Further reading

  • 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

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian vakar and Lithuanian vakar.

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

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

vakar

  1. yesterday

Derived terms

References

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

Latvian

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): [vakar]

Adverb

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

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

Derived terms

References

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

Lithuanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʋaːkɐɾ]

Adverb

vãkar (not comparable)

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

Derived terms

See also

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

Swedish

Noun

vakar

  1. indefinite plural of vak

Verb

vakar

  1. present indicative of vaka
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