хварэць на + Accusative
Being Ill with Хварэць На
хварэць на + accusative = to be ill with: Ён хварэе на грып. (He has the flu.)
How It Works
Naming the illness. After хварэць (to be ill), put на and the illness in the accusative:
- Ён хварэе на грып. (He has the flu.)
- Яна хварэла на ангіну. (She had tonsillitis.)
- Бацька даўно хварэе на сэрца. (Father has had heart trouble for a long time.)
Masculine and neuter nouns look the same as in the dictionary (на грып, на сэрца). Feminine nouns in -а change to -у or -ю (на ангіну). See the feminine accusative.
Asking. На што ты хварэеш? (What are you ill with?)
Other forms of the verb. The perfective захварэць на means to fall ill: Уся сям'я захварэла на грып. (The whole family came down with the flu.) Перахварэць на means to have had an illness and got over it.
Хварэць or баліць? Хварэць says that a person is ill. To say that a body part hurts, use баліць: У мяне баліць галава. (I have a headache.)
Other patterns. Dictionaries also list хварэць чым, but на with the accusative is the everyday way to name an illness. Хварэць за means something else: to worry about, or to cheer for a team: Я хварэю за нашу каманду.
Examples (6)
- Ён хварэе на грып.
He has the flu.
Word by Word: He is-ill on flu.
- Яна хварэла на ангіну.
She had tonsillitis.
Word by Word: She was-ill on tonsillitis.
Ангіна is feminine, so the accusative is ангіну.
- Мой бацька даўно хварэе на сэрца.
My father has had heart trouble for a long time.
Word by Word: My father long is-ill on heart.
- На што ты хварэў у дзяцінстве?
What illnesses did you have as a child?
Word by Word: On what you were-ill in childhood?
- Зімой уся сям'я захварэла на грып.
In winter, the whole family came down with the flu.
Word by Word: In-winter whole family fell-ill on flu.
- Я хварэю за нашу каманду.
I cheer for our team.
Word by Word: I am-ill for our team.
With за, хварэць means to support a team, not to be ill.
Common Mistakes
Using the locative after на.
Яна хварэла на ангіне.Яна хварэла на ангіну.Хварэць на takes the accusative, not the locative. Feminine nouns in -а end in -у.
Leaving out на.
Ён хварэе грып.Ён хварэе на грып.Хварэць cannot take the illness directly. Put на before it.
Using хварэць for a body part that hurts.
У мяне хварэе галава.У мяне баліць галава.Хварэць is about a person being ill. For pain in a body part, use баліць.
How It Connects
Learn This First
Being ill needs the accusative.
Related Patterns
- Feminine Accusative -у/-юFeminine Accusative -у and -ю
The accusative ending feminine illness names take after на.
Level 1 - Verbs with Fixed Prepositions
Other verbs that need a fixed preposition.
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Another verb whose preposition differs from English.
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Another verb whose preposition must be learned: сумаваць па + the locative.
Level 3
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