Parts of speech
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країна gen. країни - (a) country, land |
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край gen. краю - land, country, also border, edge |
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крайовий - relating to a/the land, country |
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Useful compounds |
по всій країні - all over the country країнознавство - area studies рідний край - native land (poetic) далекі краї - distant lands (poetic) покласти край - to put an end (to) у крайньому разі - in the last resort, if all else fails крайні погляди - extreme views |
Additional information
1. країна and край are both derived from the Old Slavonic for 'to cut', and are etymologically related to кроїти (to cut with a knife or scissors); край then additionally developed the meaning 'border, edge, end'
2. Україна is also, therefore, related to країна and край, with the name meaning 'borderland' ('Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine' is a popular book by the journalist Anna Reid,published in 1997).
Related words
крайній - extreme
крайність - extremeness
крайнощі - extremes
окраєць - crust (of bread)
край - beside, by, near (also біля)
вкрай - extremely, completely, absolutely