натикатися

Ukrainian

Etymology

From натика́ти (natykáty) +‎ -ся (-sja). Compare Russian натыка́ться (natykátʹsja), Belarusian натыка́цца (natykácca), Polish natykać się.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [nɐteˈkatesʲɐ]

Verb

натика́тися • (natykátysjaimpf (perfective наткну́тися) [with на (na, + accusative)]

  1. (literally) to bump into, to run into (collide with)
  2. (by extension, colloquial) to bump into, to come across, to run into, to stumble upon (meet or find unexpectedly)
  3. (figuratively) to come up against, to encounter, to hit up against, to run into, to run up against (challenge, difficulty, obstacle, opposition, etc.)

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Synonyms

References

  • Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2019), “натикатися”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 10 (на́ступ – о́бміль), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
  • натикатися”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horox – Slovozmina, Horokh – Inflection]‎[1]

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