okolo

See also: około, ôkoło, około-, and òkòło

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech okolo, from Proto-Slavic *okolo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈokolo]
  • Audio:(file)

Preposition

okolo [with genitive]

  1. round
    Šel okolo našeho domu.He went around our house.

Adverb

okolo

  1. round
    Šel jenom tak okolo.He just only went around.
adjective

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okolo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ôkolo/
  • Hyphenation: o‧ko‧lo

Adverb

ȍkolo (Cyrillic spelling о̏коло)

  1. around

Preposition

ȍkolo (Cyrillic spelling о̏коло) [with genitive]

  1. around
    okolo kućearound the house

Further reading

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

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okolo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɔkɔlɔ]

Preposition

okolo [with genitive]

  1. around
  2. in the neighborhood of
    Okolo Súče vodička tečie.In the neighborhood of Súča water flows.

Further reading

  • okolo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025