# vakar
## Hungarian
### Etymology

Perhaps from a bound root of unknown origin + -r (obsolete frequentative suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɒkɒr]
* Hyphenation: va‧kar
* Rhymes: -ɒr

### Verb

vakar
* (transitive) to scratch

#### Derived terms

* vakarás
* vakarcs
* vakarék
* vakargat
* vakaródzik
(With verbal prefixes):
* belevakar
* elvakar
* felvakar
* kivakar
* levakar
* megvakar

### References

* ↑ vakar in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

### Further reading

* vakar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Latgalian
### Etymology

Cognate with Latvian vakar and Lithuanian vakar.
Related to vokors (“night”), with the original meaning being similar to "the previous night".

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvakàr]
* Hyphenation: va‧kar

### Adverb

vakar
* yesterday

#### Derived terms

* vakarejs

### References

* Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 112

## Latvian
### Etymology

Probably the adverbial form of an earlier (unattested) adjective, of which vakars (“night”) is the nominal form. The original meaning was probably “the previous night”, whence later “yesterday”; compare Russian ве́чер (véčer, “evening”), вчера́ (včerá, “yesterday”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [vakar]
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### Adverb

vakar
* yesterday (in the day before today)
    vakar bija slikts laiks ― yesterday the weather was bad
    vakar no rīta ― yesterday morning
    vakar vakarā ― yesterday evening
    “jaunkundze vakar vēlu pārnāca mājās?” “jā, aizgājām no kluba pie Ralfa spēlēt pokeru” ― “milady came back late yesterday?” “yes, I went from the club to Ralph's (place) to play poker”
* yesterday (in the, usually recent, past)
    funkcionāri šodien ir vienkāršāki, demokrātiskāki nekā vakar ― (public) officials are simpler, more democratic today than yesterday

#### Usage notes

Vakars as a noun, means “evening” (locative form vakarā “in the evening”, used also as a temporal adverb) while historically related vakar is an adverb, meaning “yesterday” (its nominal counterpart is vakardiena “(the day of) yesterday”).

#### Antonyms

* rīt

#### Derived terms

* aizvakar
* vakardiena

#### Related terms

* vakars

### References

* ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “vakars”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

## Lithuanian
### Etymology

From vakaras. Compare Russian вечер (večer) and вчера (včera).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈʋaːkɐɾ]

### Adverb

vãkar (not comparable)
* yesterday
    Vakar kur buvai?
       Where were you yesterday?

#### Derived terms

* (adjective): vakarykštis
* (noun): vakardiena

#### See also

Dates relative to today in Lithuanian (layout · text) :
| | –3 | –2 | –1 | 0 | +1 | +2 | +3 |
| direct speech | three days ago | two days ago | yesterday | today | tomorrow | in two days | in three days |
| direct speech | užužvakar | užvakar | vakar | šiandien | rytoj | poryt | užporyt |
| reported speech | three days before, three days earlier | two days before, two days earlier | the day before | on that day | the next day | two days later | three days later |
| reported speech | [Term?] | [Term?] | [Term?] | [Term?] | [Term?] | [Term?] | [Term?] |

### Further reading

* “vakar”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024

## Swedish
### Noun

vakar
* indefinite plural of vak

### Verb

vakar
* present indicative of vaka