Meaning of змарнець | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to languish, to fade away, to waste away
2. to wither, to fade, to wilt, to die away
3. to go to waste

Examples

“Rana Marja aŭdawieła, / Dzietki paŭmirali, / Haspadarka tak zmarnieła, / Dyj z ziamli sahnali, — / Nie pa praŭdzie rassudzili / Sprawu maładzicy!”

Marja became a widow early, / Hier children died, / Her farm has gone waste so much, / And she was forced to leave her land, — / The decision was unjust / About the woman’s case!

“Няўмольнай плынню праплывае час, / І я адно прашу у лёсу годна: / Каб не змарнелі потым пасля нас / Сады і храмы на старонцы роднай.”

The time passes in unrelentless stream, / And there's only one thing I ask fate about, with dignity: / So that after we go, / The gardens and the temples in my native land don't go to waste.

“Прастуючы сцежкай у лесе, задумайся, / Ці не тваё гэта жыццё, / Узаранае чыімісьці нагамі / На жыватворнай Глебе Сусвету — / І не змарнее твой шлях у слядах тых.”

Taking a short cut on a forest path, pause to think, / Isn't it your life / Plowed by someone’s feet / On the life-giving Ground of the Universe — / And your path in these footsteps won't go to waste.

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