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-ествовать
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Russian
Etymology
ru -ество -овать
Pronunciation
unstressed
stressed -ествова́ть
Suffix
ru suffix -ествовать -ествова́ть
ru -ствовать
ru нали́чие availability, presence нали́чествовать to be on hand, to be present
Usage notes
This suffix is used in the same contexts that the suffix ru -ество is used in place of ru -ство: particularly after the hushing consonants ru ч ж ш щ, which may result from the Slavic first palatalization applied to nouns whose roots end in ru к/ц г х ск respectively (or which originally ended in one of these consonants, cf. ru князь < gem-pro *kuningaz).
Conjugation
unstressed: impf 2a -́ествовать stressed: impf 2a -ествова́ть
Derived terms
ru