теснота

Russian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [tʲɪsnɐˈta]

Noun

теснота́ • (tesnotá) f inan (genitive тесноты́, uncountable)

narrowness; tightness; closeness
cram, crush
- 2005, Андрей Юрьевич Курков (Andrey Yuryevich Kurkov), chapter 80, in Закон улитки [The Snail Law]; translated as George Bird, transl., Penguin Lost, 2010:
  Украша́ли ёлку все вме́сте. Поэ́тому бы́ло те́сно, и и́з-за тесноты́ Ни́на умудри́лась разби́ть два ша́рика.
  Ukrašáli jólku vse vméste. Poétomu býlo tésno, i íz-za tesnotý Nína umudrílasʹ razbítʹ dva šárika.
  They all decorated the New Year's tree together. So they were crowded, and because of the crowding, Nina managed to smash two balls.
в тесноте́, да не в оби́де ― v tesnoté, da ne v obíde ― the more the merrier

Declension

Declension of теснота́ (inan sg-only fem-form hard-stem accent-b)

	singular
nominative	теснота́ tesnotá
genitive	тесноты́ tesnotý
dative	тесноте́ tesnoté
accusative	тесноту́ tesnotú
instrumental	тесното́й, тесното́ю tesnotój, tesnotóju
prepositional	тесноте́ tesnoté

Related terms

те́сный (tésnyj)

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