vargti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From the same word family as var̃gas (“hardship, misery”) and vargùs (“hard, difficult”); see the latter for more. Cognate with Latvian vārgt (“to be ailing, pine away”), Old Prussian *vargīt (“to cause regret”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvɐ̌r̺ʲˑ.ɡʲt̪ʲɪ/

Verb

var̃gti (third-person present tense var̃gsta, third-person past tense var̃go)

to live in poverty
to suffer hardships, take pains, torment oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of *vargti*
		1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person	1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person
		singular vienaskaita			plural daugiskaita
		aš	tu	jis/ji	mes	jūs	jie/jos
indicative tiesioginė nuosaka	present esamasis laikas	vargstù	vargsti̇̀	var̃gsta	var̃gstame, var̃gstam	var̃gstate, var̃gstat	var̃gsta
	past būtasis kartinis laikas	vargaũ	vargai̇̃	var̃go	var̃gome, var̃gom	var̃gote, var̃got	var̃go
	past frequentative būtasis dažninis laikas	var̃gdavau	var̃gdavai	var̃gdavo	var̃gdavome, var̃gdavom	var̃gdavote, var̃gdavot	var̃gdavo
	future būsimasis laikas	var̃gsiu	var̃gsi	var̃gs	var̃gsime, var̃gsim	var̃gsite, var̃gsit	var̃gs
subjunctive tariamoji nuosaka		var̃gčiau	var̃gtum, var̃gtumei	var̃gtų	var̃gtumėme, var̃gtumėm, var̃gtume	var̃gtumėte, var̃gtumėt	var̃gtų
imperative liepiamoji nuosaka		—	var̃k, var̃ki	tevar̃gsta, tevar̃gstie	var̃kime, var̃kim	var̃kite, var̃kit	tevar̃gsta, tevar̃gstie

Participles of vargti

adjectival (dalyviai)
	active	passive
present	var̃gstąs, var̃gstantis	var̃gstamas
past	var̃gęs	var̃gtas
past frequentative	var̃gdavęs	—
future	var̃gsiąs, var̃gsiantis	var̃gsimas
participle of necessity	—	var̃gtinas

adverbial
special pusdalyvis		var̃gdamas
half-participle padalyviai	present	var̃gstant
	past	var̃gus
	past frequentative	var̃gdavus
	future	var̃gsiant
manner of action būdinys		var̃gte, var̃gtinai

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “vargti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 489

[1] Derksen, Rick (2015) “vargti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 489

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