če
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ce"
Istro-Romanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Latin quid, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃe/
Pronoun
če
Pumpokol
Noun
če
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *či, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷíh₁, initially instrumental singular of pronoun *kʷo-/*kʷe-; compare Latin quī (“how? why?”), Avestan 𐬗𐬌𐬱 (ciš), Old Saxon hwi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʃɛ/
Conjunction
če
- (Kajkavian) if
- Synonym: ako
- 1927, Dragutin Domjanić, Fala:
- I če je sunce čas,
Za oblak taki zajde.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Slovene
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *či, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷíh₁, initially instrumental singular of pronoun *kʷo-/*kʷe-; compare Latin quī (“how? why?”), Avestan 𐬗𐬌𐬱 (ciš), Old Saxon hwi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃɛ/
Conjunction
če
- if (supposing that, in the case that)
Further reading
- “če”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
čȅ
- third-person singular present of hoteti
Tsafiki
Pronoun
če
- I; the first-person singular pronoun used by children
Coordinate terms
- la (first-person singular masculine pronoun, first-person singular pronoun used by adult men)
- čiʰké (first-person singular feminine pronoun, first-person singular pronoun used by adult women)
- čiʰke-lá (first-person plural pronoun)
References
- The Languages of the Andes (2004, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Pieter C. Muysken)