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Nouns with a stem whose pronunciation ends in /-ɾ/ or a vowel (not to be confused with a noun having a vowel ending in nominative singular) have an added -j-when an ending is attached, such as tȃksi tȃksija 'taxi' and redár redárja 'security guard at a public event'. There are exceptions, though.
[4] [5] For example, the noun igra "game" has the genitive plural form iger, not igr. If the last consonant is j, then i is used as the fill vowel instead. For example, ladja "boat" has the genitive plural ladij. However, if the stem ends in lj, nj or rj, then the fill vowel is the normal e and is inserted before both consonants.
Slovene nouns retain six of the seven Slavic noun cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, locative, and instrumental. There is no distinct vocative; the nominative is used in that role. Nouns, adjectives, and pronouns have three numbers: singular, dual, and plural. Nouns in Slovene are either masculine, feminine, or neuter gender.
Slovene vs Slovenian (policy) A heated and long-running dispute has occupied this and other pages regarding the relative merits of the terms Slovene and Slovenian as both nouns and adjectives referring to Slovenia and its people. Various historical, etymological, cultural, aesthetic, and logical arguments can be made to support the "correctness ...
A heated and long-running dispute has occupied this and other pages regarding the relative merits of the terms Slovene and Slovenian as both nouns and adjectives referring to Slovenia and its people. Various historical, etymological, cultural, aesthetic, and logical arguments can be made to support the "correctness" of either term.
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Secondly, the 1844 quotation for "Slovenian" is from the "Philological Society", which is a British organization, not an American one. I have yet to see any evidence that "Slovenian" is in any way distinctly American, and as I showed before, "Slovenian" is preferred in many English-speaking countries, not just the US.
As a quick example, take the CIA World Fact book page on Slovenia; it has 'Slovenian' listed as an adjective and 'Slovene' as a noun, but it uses both interchageably on the very same page! (E.g. "Slovene lands," "Slovenian army," "Slovenian" being the language, "Slovene" being the ethnic group, "Slovenian seal", "Slovene dynastic house", etc.)