weak

1. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.

   The child was too weak to move the boulder.

   They easily guessed his weak computer password.

   schwach

   сла́быйslábyj

   слабки́йslabkýj, сла́бийslábyj

   lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

2. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.

   a weak timber; a weak rope

3. Limp, soft.

4. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.

   weak resolutions; weak virtue

5. (often)Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.

6. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.

   We were served stale bread and weak tea.

   schwach

   сла́быйslábyj

   слабки́йslabkýj

   deficient or lacking in some skill

7. Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:

   Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense marked by /-d-/, /-t-/, or /-ð-/.

   The verb to walk is weak because it has a past tense of walked and all forms are inflected by adding the typical suffix (ie is regular) to the stem walk- (ie has no vowel changes).

   The verb to run is strong, not weak, because the past tense is ran.

   schwach

   сла́быйslábyj, пра́вильныйprávilʹnyj

   (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection

8. Showing less distinct grammatical endings.

9. Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.

10. Related to, containing, or being a consonant which is prone to disappearing in some inflections, in most applicable languages including (but not limited to) w and y.

    In some Semitic languages such as Akkadian, some or all gutturals are weak and often disappear, but in others such as Arabic and Ugaritic, they are strong and never disappear.

    The reflexes of the Proto-Semitic verb *mawut- (“to die”) are often weak due to the presence of w, for example: Arabic مَاتَ (māta), Hebrew מֵת (mēṯ), and Ugaritic 𐎎𐎚 (mt /⁠māta⁠/).

11. Related to, being, or containing the lenis consonant gradation, which resulted from historically closed syllables.

    The Finnish verb kääntää (“to translate”) inflects to the singular imperative as käännä, showing the weak gradation nt > nn because it historically ended in a consonant which closed the syllable.

12. (Indo European studies, especially)Of a form in which the accent tends to shift forwards (to the right, in transcription) or did so ancestrally in Proto-Indo-European, relative to the strong stem (which has the leftmost accent allowed).

1. The strong must help the weak.

   Сильні повинні допомогати слабким.

   ruСильный должен помогать слабому.

   deDie Starken müssen den Schwachen helfen.

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2. You're too weak to do that.

   Ти занадто слабкий, щоб робити це.

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3. I'm too weak to do that.

   Я заслабкий, щоб робити це.

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4. Tom said that Mary is weak.

   Том сказав, що Мері слабка.

   ruТом сказал, что Мэри слабая.

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5. I don't want to look weak.

   Я не хочу виглядати слабким.

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