завестись

Definitions

1. 1.
   to be acquired [with у (u, + genitive) ‘by someone’] (idiomatically translated by English get or acquire with the object of у (u) as the subject)

   • у него́ завели́сь де́ньги

     u nevó zavelísʹ dénʹgi — he's got money (to spend)

   • там у меня́ завели́сь но́вые друзья́

     tam u menjá zavelísʹ nóvyje druzʹjá — I got/met/acquired new friends there

2. 2.
   to infest

   • в ста́ром до́ме завели́сь мы́ши

     v stárom dóme zavelísʹ mýši — mice infested the old house

   • у неё завели́сь вши

     u nejó zavelísʹ vši — she's become infested with lice

3. 3.
   to be wound up (of a mechanism or clock); to start (of a car or motor)
4. 4.
   colloquialto get worked up, to be turned on

   • не заводи́сь и́з-за пустяка́!

     ne zavodísʹ íz-za pustjaká! — don't get all worked up over nothing!

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