свърша

Bulgarian

Etymology

с- (s-) +‎ въ́рша (vǎ́rša)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsvɤrʃɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ɤrʃɐ
  • Hyphenation(key): свър‧ша

Verb

свъ́рша • (svǎ́rša) first-singular present indicativepf (imperfective свъ́ршвам)

  1. to finish, to complete (an action)
  2. to use up, to exhaust
  3. (transitive and intransitive) to graduate
  4. (intransitive) to end, to finish, to be over
  5. (intransitive) to end up
    свъ́рша в затво́ра
    svǎ́rša v zatvóra
    to end up in prison
  6. (colloquial) to die
  7. (reflexive with се, colloquial) to run out (to have nothing more left)
    пари́те ни се свъ́ршиха
    paríte ni se svǎ́ršiha
    we ran out of money
    (literally, “the money ran out on us”)

Conjugation

References

  • свърша”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • свърша”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010