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[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.
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.
Slovene has three numbers (singular, dual, plural), for more information see Slovene declension.. Slovene also has three persons: First person (), used to refer to the speaker or a group the speaker is a part of.
With the accession of Slovenia to the European Union on May 1, 2004, Slovene became an official language of the European Union, requiring that all Acts and Directives be translated into Slovene. Additionally, Slovenian citizens may write to any EU institution in Slovene and expect a response in the same language.
Slovenian National Corpus FidaPLUS is the 621 million words (tokens) corpus of the Slovene language, gathered from selected texts written in Slovenian of different genres and styles, mainly from books and newspapers. [1]
Archive 4; Archive 5; Leaving this aside, as I can find many notable organizations that use either Slovene or Slovenian both as an adjective and a noun and some use Slovenian as an adjective and Slovene as a noun, I am now nevertheless more in favor of Slovenian both as an adjective and a noun, after having found two interesting and independent web pages.
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 ...