lovac
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lovьcь.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lǒːʋat͡s/
- Hyphenation: lo‧vac
Noun
lóvac m anim (Cyrillic spelling ло́вац)
- hunter
- Kažu da je lovac jeo ovde. ― They say that the hunter ate here.
- 1886, Ksaver Šandor Đalski, “Na Groblju”, in Pod Starimi Krovovi:
- Nisam bio strastven lovac, ali se ipak tako svaki put pridružih, jer je plandovanje po tim dragim zagorskim brdima uvijek puno tolikoga čara. Od rana jutra lovismo.
- I was not a passionate hunter, but I joined in each time nevertheless, because time spent in those dear Zagorje hills was always so full of charm. We hunted from early morning.
- chaser
- (chess) bishop
- fighter plane
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | lóvac | lovci |
| genitive | lóvca | lȍvācā |
| dative | lovcu | lovcima |
| accusative | lovca | lovce |
| vocative | lȏvče | lovci |
| locative | lovcu | lovcima |
| instrumental | lovcem | lovcima |
See also
| Chess pieces in Serbo-Croatian · šahovske figure / шаховске фигуре (layout · text) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kralj краљ |
dama, kraljica дама, краљица |
top, kula топ, кула |
lovac, trkač, laufer ловац, тркач, лауфер |
skakač, konj скакач, коњ |
pješak, pešak, pion, pijun пјешак, пешак, пион, пијун |
References
- “lovac”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025