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Хрват

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Macedonian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈxr̩vat]
  • Hyphenation: Хр‧ват

Noun

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Хрват (Hrvatm (plural Хрвати, feminine Хрватка, diminutive Хрватче)

  1. Croat

Declension

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Declension of Хрват
singular plural
indefinite Хрват (Hrvat) Хрвати (Hrvati)
definite unspecified Хрватот (Hrvatot) Хрватите (Hrvatite)
definite proximal Хрватов (Hrvatov) Хрвативе (Hrvative)
definite distal Хрватон (Hrvaton) Хрватине (Hrvatine)
vocative Хрвату (Hrvatu) Хрвати (Hrvati)
count form Хрвата (Hrvata)

See also

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Unknown and uncertain, but probably existed in Proto-Slavic as *xъrvatъ. See the discussion on Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /xř̩ʋaːt/
  • Hyphenation: Хр‧ват

Noun

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Хр̀ва̄т m anim (Latin spelling Hr̀vāt, female equivalent Хрва̀тица)

  1. Croat (male, male and female or unspecified)
    Хрвати су најхрабрији народ на свету, не зато што се ничега не боје, него зато што се ничега не стиде.Croats are the bravest people in the world, not because they're not afraid of anything, but because they're not ashamed of anything. (quote by Jovan Dučić)
    Срби и Хрвати су један те исти комад кравље балеге који је котач запрежних кола повијести случајно пререзао на пола.Serbs and Croats are one and the same piece of cow dung that the wheel of history accidentally cut in half. (quote by Miroslav Krleža)

Declension

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Declension of Хрват
singular plural
nominative Хр̀ва̄т Хрва́ти
genitive Хрва́та Хрвата
dative Хрвату Хрватима
accusative Хрвата Хрвате
vocative Хрвате Хрвати
locative Хрвату Хрватима
instrumental Хрватом Хрватима
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Descendants

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  • French: cravate (see there for further descendants)

Cognates of the ethnonym in other languages mostly are via Latin Croata (e.g. English Croat).

Further reading

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    Gluhak, Alemko (1993), “Hr̀vāt”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN