положение

Bulgarian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic положение (položenie), borrowed from Old East Slavic положение (položenie). Cognate with Macedonian по́ложба (póložba).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [poɫoˈʒɛniɛ]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: по‧ло‧же‧ние

Noun

положе́ние • (položénie) n

  1. position, location
    Synonyms: местоположение (mestopoloženie), разположение (razpoloženie)
    изходно положениеizhodno položeniefirst position
  2. condition, state
    Synonyms: ситуация (situacija), състояние (sǎstojanie)

Declension

  • положа (položa)
  • положителност (položitelnost)

References

  • Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “положѐние”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 505
  • положение”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014

Russian

Alternative forms

Etymology

положи́ть (položítʹ, to put, to lay) + -е́ние (-énije). Cognate with Macedonian по́ложба (póložba).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pəɫɐˈʐɛnʲɪje]
  • (file)

Noun

положе́ние • (položénije) n inan (genitive положе́ния, nominative plural положе́ния, genitive plural положе́ний)

  1. position, location
  2. situation
    па́товое положе́ниеpátovoje položénije(chess) stalemate (literally, “stalemate situation”)
  3. state, condition
    в интере́сном положе́нии (euphemism)v interésnom položéniipregnant (literally, “in an interesting state”)
  4. standing
  5. thesis
  6. (in the singular or plural) regulations

Declension

Derived terms

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