padež

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *padežь.

The sense of “grammatical case” is a calque of Latin casus, which is also derived from the verb for falling, cadō. Compare Bulgarian паде́ж (padéž), Russian паде́ж (padéž).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pǎːdeʒ/

Noun

pádež m inan (Cyrillic spelling па́деж)

  1. (grammar) case
  2. waterfall

Declension

Declension of padež
singular plural
nominative pádež pádeži
genitive pádeža pádēžā
dative pádežu pádežima
accusative pádež pádeže
vocative pádežu pádeži
locative pádežu pádežima
instrumental pádežom pádežima