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Possessive adjectives for masculine and neuter possessed nouns add -ov (or -ev if the possessive noun ends in c, č, ž, š and j ("preglas")) to the possessive noun. Feminine possessed nouns always take -in. Possessive nouns can include proper names, in which case they are written capitalized. [4] [5] [7]
Compound nouns that contain a non-j-stem noun (such as dvogȏvor dvogȏvora 'dialogue' and pȍdodbȍr pȍdodbóra 'subcommittee') are also excluded, except for names that end in -mir, such as Vlȃdimir (a male name) and Čȓtomir, which can be declined either way (Vlȃdimir Vlȃdimira / Vlȃdimirja, Čȓtomir Čȓtomira / Čȓtomirja).
Nouns in Slovene are either masculine, feminine, or neuter gender. In addition, there is a distinction between animate and inanimate nouns. This is only relevant for masculine nouns and only in the singular, at odds with some other Slavic languages, e.g., Russian, for which it is also relevant in the plural for all genders. Animate nouns have ...
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.
Slovene - noun - One of a southern Slavic group usually classed with the Serbs and Croats. The dictionary says Slovene is Greek. Maybe that's where we get "Nazarene", as the New Testament was written largely in Greek. Slovenian - adjective - Slovene; noun - a Slovene. Also, the language of the Slovenes, closely akin to Serbo-Croatian.
--Eleassar my talk 17:07, 31 July 2012 (UTC) Hi, there is no denotational difference between Slovene and Slovenian (for things, nationality, ethnicity, language, nouns, adjectives, etc.) so I've updated the Dragotin Cvetko and Fran Ramovš pages to Slovene for consistency (but left the differential piping to "Slovenia" and "Slovenes"). I have ...
The confusion factor: Most old English major dictionaries say 'Slovene' is a noun and 'Slovenian' is an adjective. According to this description then, 'Slovenians', 'Slovene mountain', 'You are a Slovenian', 'You are Slovene' are incorrect usages!
According to them, as anyone can check, as an adjective, Slovenian is the currently preferred, while for the noun, Slovene(s) is more often used. Nevertheless, Slovene as an adjective and Slovenian as a noun are still often used and should be part of Wikipedia in certain circumstances, as much as I understand the policy of neutral point of view ...