kukavica

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kûkaʋit͡sa/
  • Hyphenation: ku‧ka‧vi‧ca

Noun

kȕkavica f or m (Cyrillic spelling ку̏кавица)

  1. cuckoo
  2. coward
    Majka kukavice ne plače. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Declension
Declension of kukavica
singular plural
nominative kukavica kukavice
genitive kukavice kukavica
dative kukavici kukavicama
accusative kukavicu kukavice
vocative kukavico kukavice
locative kukavici kukavicama
instrumental kukavicom kukavicama

Further reading
  • “kukavica” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • “kukavica” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kùːkaʋit͡sa/

Noun

kúkavica f

  1. cuckoo (bird)

Inflection
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. kúkavica
gen. sing. kúkavice
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)		 kúkavica kúkavici kúkavice
genitive
(rodȋlnik)		 kúkavice kúkavic kúkavic
dative
(dajȃlnik)		 kúkavici kúkavicama kúkavicam
accusative
(tožȋlnik)		 kúkavico kúkavici kúkavice
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)		 kúkavici kúkavicah kúkavicah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)		 kúkavico kúkavicama kúkavicami

Further reading
  • “kukavica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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