умудриться

Russian

Etymology

умудри́ть (umudrítʹ) +‎ -ся (-sja)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʊmʊˈdrʲit͡sːə]
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Verb

умудри́ться • (umudrítʹsjapf (imperfective умудря́ться)

  1. to become wiser
  2. (colloquial) to manage to, to contrive to (to succeed in doing something difficult) [with infinitive ‘to do something’]
  3. (colloquial, ironic) to manage to (to do something that could easily have been avoided) [with infinitive ‘to do something’]
    • 1988, Кир Булычёв (Kir Bulychev), chapter 7, in Посёлок [The Settlement]:
      Но Сребрина Талева умудри́лась слома́ть бедро́ за день до вы́садки.
      No Srebrina Taleva umudrílasʹ slomátʹ bedró za denʹ do výsadki.
      But Srebrina Taleva had managed to break her thigh the day before landing.
  4. passive of умудри́ть (umudrítʹ)

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