претворить

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прѣтворити (prětvoriti). By surface analysis, пре- (pre-) + твори́ть (tvorítʹ). Doublet of native dialectal перетвори́ть (peretvorítʹ). Compare Ukrainian перетворити (peretvoryty).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [prʲɪtvɐˈrʲitʲ]
  • Homophone: притвори́ть (pritvorítʹ)

Verb

претвори́ть • (pretvorítʹ) pf (imperfective претворя́ть)

  1. to implement
    претвори́ть в жизнь/де́лоpretvorítʹ v žiznʹ/déloto realize, to implement, to carry out, to put into practice
  2. (obsolete, literary) to turn (into), to change (into), to convert (into)

Conjugation

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