/bràːti/
IzvorFrom Proto-Slavic *bьrati (“to pick up, to take”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti. For the meaning development compare with Latin lego (“to choose, to select, to collect, to gather, to read”), also compare with Russian разобра́ть (razobrátʹ, “to dismantle, to disassemble, to take apart, to deconstruct, to analyse, to parse, but also to recognize, to discern, make out, to read”), Russian разбо́рчивый по́черк (razbórčivyj póčerk, “legible handwriting”), Russian разбо́рчивая речь (razbórčivaja rečʹ, “intelligible speech”). First attested in the 16th century.
- transitiveto read (look at and interpret letters or other information)
- transitiveto recognize feelings from a face^(→SSKJ)
- rare, transitiveto guess, to tell (fortune)^(→SSKJ)
“Tedaj so ji zmerom morale dati kaj, ko jim je metala karte in brala srečo iz roke.” — At that time, they always had to give her something when she was putting down cards and telling their luck from their hands.
- Eastern, archaic, dialectal, transitiveto gather, to pick
“Prigodilo pa se je, da je nekoč na Šmarni gori brala jagode nedolžna deklica, po imenu Matjaževa Micka iz Zavrha.” — Once it happened that an innocent girl named Micka from Zavrh was picking strawberries on Šmarna gora.
- transitiveto understand as^(→SSKJ, SP)
“Evropska (beri: zahodna) kultura.” — European (i.e. western) culture.
- intransitive, reflexive, slangto keep in touch, usually by messages ^(→Sprotni)
- obsoleteto cost, to consume, to need ^(→Pleteršnik)
Oblikebráti(canonical, imperfective) · bráti(error-unrecognized-form) · brȁt(error-unrecognized-form) · brȃt(supine) · brȃł(l-participle, masculine, singular) · brála(feminine, l-participle, singular) · brȃlo(l-participle, neuter, singular) · brȃla(dual, l-participle, masculine) · brȃli(dual, feminine, l-participle) · brȃli(dual, l-participle, neuter) · brȃli(l-participle, masculine, plural) · brȃle(feminine, l-participle, plural) · brȃla(l-participle, neuter, plural) · brán(l-participle, masculine, singular) · brána(feminine, l-participle, singular) · bráno(l-participle, neuter, singular) · brána(dual, l-participle, masculine) · bráni(dual, feminine, l-participle) · bráni(dual, l-participle, neuter) · bráni(l-participle, masculine, plural)