претворять

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прѣтварꙗти (prětvarjati). By surface analysis, пре- (pre-) + тво́р- (tvór-) + -я́ть (-játʹ). Doublet of native dialectal перетворя́ть (peretvorjátʹ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [prʲɪtvɐˈrʲætʲ]
  • Homophone: притворя́ть (pritvorjátʹ)

Verb

претворя́ть • (pretvorjátʹ) impf (perfective претвори́ть)

  1. to implement
    претворя́ть в жизнь/де́лоpretvorjátʹ 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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