dëgjoj

== Albanian == === Alternative forms === digjoj — Tosk ndëgjoj, ndëgoj, dëlgoj, dëlgonj, diligonj, ngjoj — dialectal ndigoj, ngoj — Kosovo ëndiglonj — Buzuku === Etymology === First attested as ëndiglonj in Buzuku, borrowed from Vulgar Latin intellegō (“to understand, perceive”), with metathesis of the -l- and -g- and many other phonological distortions in dialects, with the predominant form ultimately phonologically contaminated with gjoj (“to hear”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /dəˈɟoj/ Rhymes: -oj === Verb === dëgjoj (aorist dëgjova, participle dëgjuar) (ambitransitive) to hear Synonym: ndiej S'të dëgjoj. ― I can't hear you. (ambitransitive) to listen to, focus on, pay attention to I dëgjoi pulsin. ― He listened to the pulse. (ambitransitive) to listen (to advice or instructions), obey Synonym: bindem (transitive) to learn, find out about Synonym: mësoj (ambitransitive, colloquial) to understand, speak (a language) Synonym: kuptoj (intransitive, chiefly in the negative, colloquial) to not care, not want to hear about [with nga] (Can we add an example for this sense?) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “dëgj/ój”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980, page 321f. Mann, S. E. (1948), “dëgjoj”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 72a Kristoforidhi, Kostandin (1904), “dε̯γϳόνϳ”, in Λεξικὸν τῆς Ἀλβανικῆς γλώσσης [Lexikón tís Alvanikís glóssis] (in Greek), Athens, page 93