сыпаться

Russian

Etymology

сы́пать (sýpatʹ) +‎ -ся (-sja)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɨpət͡sə]
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Verb

сы́паться • (sýpatʹsja) impf (perfective насы́паться or посы́паться)

  1. to fall, to pour, to run out
    штукату́рка сы́плется ― štukatúrka sýpletsja ― the plaster flakes off
  2. to rain down, to pour forth
    сы́паться гра́дом ― sýpatʹsja grádom ― to hail (precipitation), (figuratively) to rain down
  3. to fall thick and fast
    уда́ры сыпа́лись гра́дом ― udáry sypálisʹ grádom ― blows were raining down (falling thick and fast)
  4. (colloquial) (of cloth) to fray out
  5. (colloquial) to flunk, to fail
  6. passive of сы́пать (sýpatʹ)

Conjugation

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