čežnja

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From čȅznuti +‎ -nja. First attested in the 19th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃěːʒɲa/

Noun

čéžnja f (Cyrillic spelling че́жња)

  1. longing

Declension

Declension of čežnja
singular plural
nominative čežnja čežnje
genitive čežnje čežnja / čežnji
dative čežnji čežnjama
accusative čežnju čežnje
vocative čežnjo čežnje
locative čežnji čežnjama
instrumental čežnjom čežnjama

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “čežnja”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 130

Further reading

  • čežnja”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025