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From a song "Уходи, дверь закрой" by Евгения Отрадная

Уходи и дверь закрой,
У меня теперь другой,
Мне не нужен больше твой
номер в книжке записной,
Натерпелась, наждалась, <--------- What's this?
Я любовью обожглась,
Но теперь я наконец-то
Будто снова родилась!

Can someone please tell me what наждалась means?

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на+verb+ся is a circumfix (I don't know how technically correct it is to call it that but the two elements work as a whole) that means "to have had enough of [doing something]". It's probably an extrapolation from наесться and напиться, and it's productive, meaning that new words formed this way will sound natural.

So наждалась means "[I'm] done waiting."

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  • Very interesting, similar to another prefix I've seen, ПОНА- as in ПОНАзакачивать "to download lots of (something)."
    – CocoPop
    Commented Jan 11, 2015 at 13:43
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    @CocoPop It can also be conveyed with just на- (most of the time; the classic понаехали can't). пона- makes it more expressive.
    – Nikolay Ershov
    Commented Jan 11, 2015 at 13:45
  • Are both на- and пона- in this sense always perfective?
    – CocoPop
    Commented Jan 11, 2015 at 13:47
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    @CocoPop Yes, unless reverse-imperfected with -ыва-/-ива-. (Except for directionless verbs of motion: понаезжать, поналетать, etc. are imperfective, but they wouldn't be used often.) (Wait... now I'm not sure. Which aspect is понахватывать? Apparently perfective. We need another opinion, I'm confused.)
    – Nikolay Ershov
    Commented Jan 11, 2015 at 13:51
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    Good explanation, just note that НАхххСЯ can have other meaning as well, e.g. нарваться (stumble upon), навязаться (inflict oneself upon) etc
    – J-mster
    Commented Jan 11, 2015 at 14:43

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