sjena

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěnь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sjêna/
  • Hyphenation: sje‧na

Noun

sjȅna f (Cyrillic spelling сје̏на)

  1. shadow
    Tamo gdje je svjetlo, mora postojati sjena, a gdje je sjena mora biti svjetlo
    Where light is, there must be a shadow, and where the shadow is, must be light.
  2. silhouette
  3. shade
  4. umbrage
  5. ghost
    • 1982, Jadranka Stojaković, “Sve smo mogli mi”:
      Nikoga nema u praznom gradu
      Ulice moje korake kradu
      I ja kao sjena sad lutam.
      Nobody is around in the empty city
      the streets steal my paces
      and I am strolling like a ghost.
  6. wraith
  7. adumbration, shading
  8. hatching

Declension

Declension of sjena
singular plural
nominative sjȅna sjene
genitive sjene sjȇnā
dative sjeni sjenama
accusative sjenu sjene
vocative sjeno sjene
locative sjeni sjenama
instrumental sjenom sjenama

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Further reading

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