ljudi
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Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ľudьje, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ljaudejes, nominative plural of *ljáudis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰis, from *h₁lewdʰ-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ljȗdi m pl (Cyrillic spelling љу̑ди); singular: čovjek / čovek)
- people, men
- Dva čovjeka su išla cestom. ― Two men walked down the street.
- Pet ljudi je išlo cestom. ― Five people walked down the street.
- (colloquial) guys, you guys (group of familiar people of any or mixed gender)
- (vocative) everybody, everyone (addressing a group of people)
Usage notes
[edit]This plural form takes suppletive stem in the singular, as can be seen in the declension table. Old dual forms have been preserved in the counting for 2, 3, 4 (also for 22, 23, 24, 32, 33, 34, etc., whereas the singular form is used for 21, 31, 41, etc.) which bind plural form of čovjek / čovek.
Declension
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- Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- Serbo-Croatian pluralia tantum
- Serbo-Croatian terms with usage examples
- Serbo-Croatian colloquialisms