-ничать

Russian

Etymology

Extracted from words such as безде́льничать (bezdélʹničatʹ) and у́мничать (úmničatʹ). By surface analysis, -ник (-nik) +‎ -ать (-atʹ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [nʲɪt͡ɕɪtʲ]

Suffix

-ничать • (-ničatʹ)

  1. Productive verbal suffix used to indicate showing a certain behaviour
    ‎капри́з (kapríz, “caprice”) + ‎-ничать (-ničatʹ) → ‎капри́зничать (kaprízničatʹ, “to be capricious”)
    ‎коке́тка (kokétka, “coquette, a flirt”) + ‎-ничать (-ničatʹ) → ‎коке́тничать (kokétničatʹ, “to flirt, to show off”)
    ‎нерв (nerv, “nerve”) + ‎-ничать (-ničatʹ) → ‎не́рвничать (nérvničatʹ, “to be nervous”)

Usage notes

  • The verbs are typically imperfective when unprefixed and are intransitive.

Conjugation

imperfective

perfective

Derived terms

Russian terms suffixed with -ничать
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