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Meaning of пошта | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
[ˈpoʂta]

Definitions

  1. mail, post
    uncountable
  2. post office
    uncountable
  3. Equivalent to 'post': Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and...

Equivalents

Bosanski post
Hrvatski post
Kurdî post
Српски post

Examples

“пасла́ць па по́шце”

to mail, to post

“разно́сіць по́шту”

to deliver the mail

“палява́я по́шта”

field post

“ляту́чая по́шта”

airmail

“Ciapier budzim rachawać tak, szto akcyzu za tabaku, harbatu, cukier, za listy, szto poczta wozić, telegrapy, my niczoha nia płacim, a płaciać tolki kupcy i pany;”

Now we are going to do calculations, assuming that we are not paying excise duties on tobacco, tea and sugar. We also assume that we are not paying anything for letters carried by the post and for telegraph services. Only merchants and landlords are making these payments.

“Хто купляе ў глаўным складзи ня менш як за поўрубель, той ня плациць за прасланне почтаю.”

Anyone who buys at least half a ruble's worth from the main warehouse doesn't have to pay for delivery via post.

“I found, on questioning the servants, that Estella was in Paris, and I got a promise from the surgeon that he would write to her by the next post.”
“Ad Nowaho Hodu pa pocztach paczali pradawać nowaho rysunku pacztowyje marki s partretami asob Carskaho Domu.”

Starting from the New Year, post offices began selling redesigned postage stamps featuring portraits of the members of the Czar Family.

“Na pošcie u Vaŭkavysku mnie kazali, što hazeta "Krynica" prychodziła, ale z pošty zabiraŭ jaje pasłaniec Izabelinskaha Načalnika.”

I've been told at the post office in Vaŭkavysk that the newspaper "Krynica" was arriving, but a representative of the authorities from Izabelin kept seizing it from the post office.

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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