nugrybauti
Lithuanian
FWOTD – 29 January 2022
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [nʊɡrʲiːˈbɑˑʊtʲɪ]
Verb
nugrybáuti (third-person present tense nugrybáuja, third-person past tense nugrybãvo)
- (transitive) to pick mushrooms[1]
- 2010, Vytautas V. Landsbergis, “Atvirukas gimtadienio proga [Birthday card]”, in Mūsų Vytis:
- O aš lekiu dideliu greičiu, stengdamasis nugrybauti kuo didesnį miško plotą – mane labiau traukia tie didieji
- And I am going at high speed, trying to pick mushrooms from the largest possible area of the forest – I'm more attracted to the big ones
- (intransitive) to wander, lose one's way (literally, “to get lost wandering in search of mushrooms”)
- Synonyms: nuklysti, pasiklysti
- 2020, Povilas Pauplys, Atsikeliu ir nulūžtu (Camino del Norte)[1], Naujas vardas:
- Vieną kartą, matau, portugalas nugrybauja kitu keliu, rėkiu jam: „no, no, no this way“.
- One time, I see a Portuguese guy wandering the other way, I shout at him: "no, no, no this way".
- (intransitive, by extension) to wander, become distracted during a task
- 2020, Mantas Stonkus, quotee, “Mantas Stonkus įsteigė mokyklą: „Nesu diplomuotas mokytojas, bet esu buvęs mokinys“ [Mantas Stonkus founds a school: "I'm not a qualified teacher, but I am a former pupil"]”, in Žmonės[2]:
- kartais ruošdamasis kitos dienos testui, vadovėlyje nugrybaudavau į tolimesnes temas ir taip įsitraukdavau, kad užmiršdavau kam ruošiausi
- sometimes when I was preparing for the next day's test, I would get distracted by the next topics in the textbook and get so involved that I would forget what I was preparing for
- (intransitive, by extension) to malfunction, go off the rails (of a device, program, etc.)
- 2008, Deimantė Dokšaitė, “Internetas lietuvėja, o lietuviai jame virsta rusais [The Internet is becoming Lithuanian, and Lithuanians are turning into Russians]”, in Delfi.lt[3]:
- „Google“ verčia ir į mūsų kalbą. Tik kartais labai stipriai „nugrybauja“.
- "Google" also translates into our language. But sometimes it "goes off the rails" very badly.
Conjugation
| singular vienaskaita | plural daugiskaita | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| aš | tu | jis/ji | mes | jūs | jie/jos | |||
| indicative | present | nugrybauju | nugrybauji | nugrybauja | nugrybaujame, nugrybaujam |
nugrybaujate, nugrybaujat |
nugrybauja | |
| past | nugrybavau | nugrybavai | nugrybavo | nugrybavome, nugrybavom |
nugrybavote, nugrybavot |
nugrybavo | ||
| past frequentative | nugrybaudavau | nugrybaudavai | nugrybaudavo | nugrybaudavome, nugrybaudavom |
nugrybaudavote, nugrybaudavot |
nugrybaudavo | ||
| future | nugrybausiu | nugrybausi | nugrybaus | nugrybausime, nugrybausim |
nugrybausite, nugrybausit |
nugrybaus | ||
| subjunctive | nugrybaučiau | nugrybautum, nugrybautumei |
nugrybautų | nugrybautumėme, nugrybautumėm, nugrybautume |
nugrybautumėte, nugrybautumėt |
nugrybautų | ||
| imperative | — | nugrybauk, nugrybauki |
tenugrybauja, tenugrybaujie |
nugrybaukime, nugrybaukim |
nugrybaukite, nugrybaukit |
tenugrybauja, tenugrybaujie | ||
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Derived terms
- nusigrybáuti
References
- ^ “nugrybauti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
Further reading
- Joel Mowdy (24 April 2019) “Nugrybauti”, in Guernica
- “nugrybauti”, in Lietuvių kalbos naujažodžių duomenynas [Database of Lithuanian neologisms], ekalba.lt, 2011–2025
- “nugrybauti”, in Jaunimo žodynas [Youth dictionary], žodynas.lt, n.d.