dijete

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dětę, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle, suck”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /djěːte/
  • Hyphenation: dije‧te

Noun

dijéte n (Cyrillic spelling дије́те, diminutive djeténce)

  1. child, kid
    Synonym: (Croatia) otrok

Declension

Declension of dijete
singular
nominative dijéte
genitive djèteta
dative djètetu
accusative dijéte
vocative dijȇte
locative djètetu
instrumental djètetom

As opposed to other Slavic languages, in Serbo-Croatian dijete does not have a plural – the collective noun djeca is used instead.

References

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