завестись

за- (za-) +‎ вести́сь (vestísʹ)

• IPA^(key): [zəvʲɪˈsʲtʲisʲ]

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завести́сь • (zavestísʹ) pf (imperfective заводи́ться)

1. to be acquired (у (u) + genitive, by someone; normally expressed in English in the active voice)

   у него́ завели́сь де́ньги ― u nevó zavelísʹ dénʹgi ― he's got money (to spend) (literally, “money was acquired by him”)

   там у меня́ завели́сь но́вые друзья́ ― tam u menjá zavelísʹ nóvyje druzʹjá ― I got/met/acquired new friends there (literally, “new friends were acquired by me there”)

2. to infest (у (u) + genitive, someone, or + location, somewhere)

   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 (literally, “lice infested her”)

3. to be wound up (of a mechanism or clock); to start (of a car or motor)
4. (colloquial) to 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!

5. passive of завести́ (zavestí)

• Note the construction of the verb in the first definition and corresponding examples. What is typically rendered as the subject in English is in Russian specified using у (u) + genitive, normally preceding the verb, while the verb agrees with what is, from the English perspective, the object.

• заводи́ть impf (zavodítʹ), завести́ pf (zavestí)
• обзаводи́ться impf (obzavodítʹsja), обзавести́сь pf (obzavestísʹ)