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In Slovenian, verbs are conjugated for 3 persons and 3 numbers (singular, dual, and plural). There are 4 tenses (present, past, pluperfect, and future), 3 moods (indicative, imperative, and conditional) and 2 voices (active and passive). [4] [5] [6] Verbs also have 4 participles and 2 verbal nouns (infinitive and supine). [5]
Wikipedia:Naming conventions states that article names "should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize." Preliminary research into which term is more recognized, using scientific samples of English usage known as "corpora" indicates that "Slovenian" is more common.
The Slovene alphabet or Slovenian alphabet (Slovene: slovenska abeceda, pronounced ... The letters q, w, x, y are excluded from the standard spelling, ...
Slovenian has eight vowels, but the Bohorič alphabet only has five vowel characters (this flaw is shared by modern Slovenian orthography). The combination "sh" could be read as two separate letters or as a digraph (although this is relevant for only a handful of words, such as shujšati 'to lose weight').
This means that in all cases where Slovenian is used as part of the article's title, it should be (except for the defined exceptions) used as the only form in the article for both the adjective and the noun. Example: The article discussing dialects of Slovenian language should have the title "Slovenian dialects".
--- December 1995 Slovenian Research Center of America, Inc. Dr. Edward Gobetz 29227 Eddy Road Willoughby Hills, OH 44092. Both 'Slovene' and 'Slovenian' have long been used in respectable books and the media, yet there is still considerable disagreement as to which of the two terms is correct or at least preferable.
To XJamRastafire: Seeing how both Slovene and Slovenian exist in our English dictionaries, and considering Slovenian is clearly increasingly common and already the immensely more popular term (certainly by virtually every native-English speaking Slovenian), I hope you understand the futility of your efforts in supporting Slovene.
In the Bohorič alphabet, certain words with different pronunciations had the same spelling. Metelko wanted to solve this problem by splitting E into three variants and O into two variants. Metelko's letters , and represent the vowels /ɛ/ , /e/ , and /ə/ , which were formerly written with E .