страсть

Old Church Slavonic

Noun

страсть • (strastĭ) f

  1. suffering, pain

Russian

Etymology

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [strasʲtʲ]
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Noun

страсть • (strastʹ) f inan (genitive стра́сти, nominative plural стра́сти, genitive plural страсте́й)

  1. passion; obsession
  2. strong love (between people)
  3. strong obsession with, attraction to some activity
  4. the subject of someone's passion
  5. (religion, plural only) horror; suffering
    стра́сти Христо́вы
    strásti Xristóvy
    Passion
  6. (plural only) horror (story)
    Что за стра́сти ты расска́зываешь!
    Što za strásti ty rasskázyvaješʹ!
    Quite a horror story that are you telling me!

Declension
Declension of страсть (inan fem-form 3rd-decl accent-e) 
singular plural
nominative стра́сть
strástʹ		 стра́сти
strásti
genitive стра́сти
strásti		 страсте́й
strastéj
dative стра́сти
strásti		 страстя́м
strastjám
accusative стра́сть
strástʹ		 стра́сти
strásti
instrumental стра́стью
strástʹju		 страстя́ми
strastjámi
prepositional стра́сти
strásti		 страстя́х
strastjáx

Adverb

страсть • (strastʹ)

  1. (colloquial) very, awfully

References
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “страсть”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv O. N., Moscow: Progress
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