изредка
Russian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈizrʲɪtkə]
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Adverb
и́зредка • (ízredka)
- rarely, seldom
- from time to time, occasionally
- 1899, Антон Чехов [Anton Chekhov], Душечка; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., The Darling, 1916:
- С восто́ка надвига́лись тё́мные дождевы́е ту́чи, и отту́да и́зредка потя́гивало вла́гой.
- S vostóka nadvigálisʹ tjómnyje doždevýje túči, i ottúda ízredka potjágivalo vlágoj.
- Dark rainclouds were gathering from the east, and bringing from time to time a breath of moisture in the air.
Related terms
- ре́дко (rédko)
Further reading
- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “изрежать”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.