češčina

See also: češćina

Old Czech

Etymology

From češský +‎ -ina.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈt͡ʃɛʃt͡ʃina/
IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈt͡ʃɛʃt͡ʃina/

Noun

češčina f

Czech (language)

Declension

Declension of češčina (sg-only hard a-stem)

	singular
nominative	češčina
genitive	češčiny
dative	češčině
accusative	češčinu
vocative	češčino
locative	češčině
instrumental	češčinú

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.

Descendants

Czech: čeština

Further reading

Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “češčina”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Slovene

Etymology

From čéški +‎ -ina.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ʃéːʃt͡ʃina/

Noun

čẹ̑ščina f

Czech (language)
češčina je Evropski jezik ― Czech is a European language

Usage notes

The noun form is generally used only as the subject of a sentence. In the predicate, the adverbial form čéško is used.

Declension

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
nominative	čéščina
genitive	čéščine
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	čéščina
genitive (rodȋlnik)	čéščine
dative (dajȃlnik)	čéščini
accusative (tožȋlnik)	čéščino
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	čéščini
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	čéščino

Related terms

Further reading

“češčina”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025