sjena
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *sěnь.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sjêna/
- Hyphenation: sje‧na
Noun
sjȅna f (Cyrillic spelling сје̏на)
- shadow
- Tamo gdje je svjetlo, mora postojati sjena, a gdje je sjena mora biti svjetlo
- Where light is, there must be a shadow, and where the shadow is, must be light.
- Tamo gdje je svjetlo, mora postojati sjena, a gdje je sjena mora biti svjetlo
- silhouette
- shade
- umbrage
- ghost
- 1982, Jadranka Stojaković (lyrics and music), “Sve smo mogli mi”:
- Nikoga nema u praznom gradu
Ulice moje korake kradu
I ja kao sjena sad lutam.- Nobody is around in the empty city
the streets steal my paces
and I am strolling like a ghost.
- Nobody is around in the empty city
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- wraith
- adumbration, shading
- hatching
Declension
Declension of sjena
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sjȅna | sjene |
| genitive | sjene | sjȇnā |
| dative | sjeni | sjenama |
| accusative | sjenu | sjene |
| vocative | sjeno | sjene |
| locative | sjeni | sjenama |
| instrumental | sjenom | sjenama |
Synonyms
- (Croatia): tijenje
Antonyms
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