čovek

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From older človek, from Proto-Slavic *čьlověkъ, *čelověkъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʃôʋek/
  • Hyphenation: čo‧vek

Noun

čȍvek m (Cyrillic spelling чо̏век)

  1. man, person
    jeste li vid(j)eli ovog čov(j)eka? ― have you seen this man?
    ti si mrtav čov(j)ek ― you're a dead man
    zanemarite čov(j)eka iza zav(j)ese ― pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
  2. human
    ne želim biti čov(j)ek, želim biti robot! ― I don't want to be human, I want to be a robot!
    nisi zao, samo si...čov(j)ek ― you're not evil, you're just...human

Declension

References

  • “čovek” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (1990, Друго фототипско издање), Матица српска, Matica hrvatska (Нови Сад, Zagreb), volume 6, page 891
  • Речник српскога језика (2007, Прво издање), Нови Сад: Матица српска, page 1520
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