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-сте
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Ukrainian
Alternative forms
uk -сьте
Etymology
Contraction of uk sla-pro *este, second-person plural of sla-pro *byti. Previously marked the perfect aspect, as in Old Church Slavonic. Cognate with pl -ście, which is also used with former l-participles to form the past tense.
Pronunciation
Verb
uk verb clitics clitic
uk dialectal Used with past plural forms of imperfective (rarely perfective) verbs, marking them as second-person plural.
uk w:Vasyl Stefanyk Камінний хрест The Stone Cross 1900 1942 Lviv Дєкую вам файно, ґазди і ґаздині, шо-сте ні мали за ґазду, а мою за ґаздиню… I thank you much, gentlemen and ladies, for you have had me for a householder, and my [wife] for a householdress… https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8_(%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA,_1942)/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82
Usage notes
May be attached to any word in the sentence.
See also
uk -сми 1-st person singular
uk -смо 1-st person plural
uk clitics