Meaning of ям | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to eat, to consume
   transitive
2. to eat, to feed oneself (to maintain life)
   transitive
3. to eat (to like or be able to eat a specific food)
   transitive
4. to spend, to squander (money, property, etc., usually belonging to someone else)
   colloquial, figuratively
5. to eat away, to corrode, to destroy
   figuratively, transitive
6. to cause someone to worry, to eat, to pester, to badger, to nag
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Са́нке, сла́гай да яде́м.”

Sanke, serve the food so we can eat.

“Веднъ́ж тя яде́ше нама́зана фили́я с мед и ма́сло.”

Once she was eating a slice of bread spread with honey and butter.

“От една́ се́дмица яде́м са́мо варе́на царе́вица.”

For a week we've been eating only boiled corn.

“Ама́ наи́стина ли и́ма хо́ра, кои́то яда́т жа́би?”

Are there really people who eat frogs?

“Да оста́вя пари́! Че да ги яде́ мо́ят зет, а, Пе́тър да ги яде́.”

Me, leave money! So that my son-in-law can squander it, eh, so Peter can squander it.

“Чи́стото зла́то ръжда́ го не яде́.”

Rust does not eat away pure gold.

“Жесто́ка ми́съл ни яде́ше, че Бълга́рия ни е забра́вила.”

A cruel thought was eating us up, that Bulgaria had forgotten us.

“Ста́ваше не́що с то́зи чове́к, не́що го яде́ше и го суше́ше отвъ́тре.”

Something was happening to this man, something was eating him up and drying him out from the inside.

“Какво́ те яде́?”

What's worrying you?

CEFR level