čiji

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See also: cíjí, cìjí, and cìjī

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьjь.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃǐjiː/
  • Hyphenation: či‧ji
  • Rhymes: -jiː

Pronoun[edit]

čìjī (Cyrillic spelling чѝјӣ)

  1. (interrogative, relative) whose
    Čija je ovo knjiga?Whose book is this?
    On je uspješan čovjek čijoj karijeri mnogi zavide.He is a successful man whose career is admired by many.
    • 2016, Jakob Nakić, Marko Rogić, “Nezakoniti dokazi u kaznenom postupku (Poseban osvrt na mjere tajnog snimanja telefonskih razgovora i trećega u tim radnjama)”, in Zbornik Pravnog Fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci, volume 37, number 1, page 542:
      S pravnog gledišta, načini prikupljanja podataka koji su podvedeni pod norme, predstavljaju mjere na čiju se primjenu određeni subjekti ovlašćuju i za čiju se primjenu uređuju uvjeti.
      From a legal standpoint, the manners of accumulation of data which are performed under a norm represent measures to the application of which specific subjects empower themselves and to the application of which they set the conditions to themselves.
  2. (indefinite, possessive) belonging to whomever; whosever, whoever's
    Čiji god pronađem, uzimam!Whosever I find, I will take!

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