svest

See also: svést

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From s- +‎ vest.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʋêːst/

Noun

svȇst f (Cyrillic spelling све̑ст)

  1. consciousness
    izgubiti svest ― to lose consciousness
    • 1996, United Nations, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Serbian”, in UDHR in Unicode‎[1], archived from the original on 27 July 2021:
      Sva ljudska bića rađaju se slobodna i jednaka u dostojanstvu i pravima. Ona su obdarena razumom i svešću i treba jedni prema drugima da postupaju u duhu bratstva.
      All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Declension

Declension of svest
singular plural
nominative svest svesti
genitive svesti svesti
dative svesti svestima
accusative svest svesti
vocative svesti svesti
locative svesti svestima
instrumental svešću / svesti svestima

Derived terms

References

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