Koreja

See also: koreja and Korejā

Latvian

Korejas pussala (Āzijā)

Etymology

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Korean 고려 (Goryeo), the name of an ancient Korean dynasty that ruled most of the peninsula from 918 to 1392 CE.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Koreja f (4th declension)

1. the Korean Peninsula, its geographic region

   Korejas pussala ― Korean Peninsula

2. an earlier country occupying the whole Korean Peninsula, now divided between North and South Korea

   Korejas karš ― the Korean war

Declension

Declension of Koreja (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	Koreja	—
accusative (akuzatīvs)	Koreju	—
genitive (ģenitīvs)	Korejas	—
dative (datīvs)	Korejai	—
instrumental (instrumentālis)	Koreju	—
locative (lokatīvs)	Korejā	—
vocative (vokatīvs)	Koreja	—

Derived terms

• Dienvidkoreja
• Ziemeļkoreja
• korejietis, korejiete
• korejisks
• korejiešu valoda

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /korěːja/
• Hyphenation: Ko‧re‧ja

Proper noun

Koréja f (Cyrillic spelling Коре́ја)

1. Korea

Declension

Declension of Koreja

	singular
nominative	Koreja
genitive	Koreje
dative	Koreji
accusative	Koreju
vocative	Korejo
locative	Koreji
instrumental	Korejom

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔrɛ́ːja/

Proper noun

Korȇja f

1. Korea

Inflection

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Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Korêja
genitive	Korêje
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Korêja
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Korêje
dative (dajȃlnik)	Korêji
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Korêjo
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Korêji
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Korêjo

Derived terms

• Júžna Korêja
• Séverna Korêja

Related terms

• Korêjec / Korêjka
• korêjski
• korêjščina