kukavica

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kȕkavica f or m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling ку̏кавица)

  1. cuckoo
  2. coward
    Majka kukavice ne plače. ― The mother of a coward does not cry.

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

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kùːkaʋit͡sa/

Noun

kúkavica f

  1. cuckoo (bird)

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
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 (in Slovene), 2014–2025
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