керувати

Ukrainian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish kierować, from German kehren, From Middle High German kēren, from Old High German kēran or cherren.[1] With -ува́ти (-uváty) suffix.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kerʊˈʋate]
  • (file)

Verb

керува́ти • (keruváty) impf (intransitive, + instrumental, rarely transitive)

  1. to steer, to drive, to pilot
  2. to control
  3. to direct, to guide
  4. to administer, to be in charge (of), to command, to govern, to lead, to manage, to rule
  5. (music) to conduct (:choir, orchestra)
  6. (grammar) to govern (require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used)

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “керувати”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.