dijete

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• déte (Ekavian)
• díte (Ikavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dětę, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle, suck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djěːte/
• Hyphenation: dije‧te

Noun

dijéte n (Cyrillic spelling дије́те, diminutive djeténce) (Ijekavian)

1. child, kid

Declension

Declension of dijete

	singular
nominative	dijéte
genitive	djèteta
dative	djètetu
accusative	dijéte
vocative	dijȇte
locative	djètetu
instrumental	djètetom

As opposed to other Slavic languages, in Serbo-Croatian dijete does not have a plural – the collective noun djeca is used instead.

References

• “dijete”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026