ovca

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ovьca, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éwis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǒːʋtsa/
• Hyphenation: ov‧ca

Noun

óvca f (Cyrillic spelling о́вца)

1. sheep (mammal), ewe

Declension

Declension of ovca

	singular	plural
nominative	óvca	ȏvce
genitive	ovce	ovácā
dative	ovci	ovcama
accusative	ovcu	ovce
vocative	ovco	ovce
locative	ovci	ovcama
instrumental	ovcom	ovcama

Related terms

• óvan

References

• “ovca” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ovьca, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éwis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔu̯t͡sa/

Noun

ovca f (genitive singular ovce, nominative plural ovce, genitive plural oviec, declension pattern of ulica)

1. sheep (mammal), ewe

Declension

Declension of ovca

	singular	plural
nominative	ovca	ovce
genitive	ovce	oviec
dative	ovci	ovciam
accusative	ovce	ovce
locative	ovci	ovciach
instrumental	ovcou	ovcami

Derived terms

• ovčí
• ovečka

Further reading

• “ovca”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ovьca, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éwis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀ːʋt͡sa/

Noun

óvca f

1. sheep (mammal), ewe

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	ôvca
gen. sing.	ôvce
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	ôvca	ôvci	ôvce
genitive (rodȋlnik)	ôvce	ôvc	ôvc
dative (dajȃlnik)	ôvci	ôvcama	ôvcam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	ôvco	ôvci	ôvce
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	ôvci	ôvcah	ôvcah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	ôvco	ôvcama	ôvcami

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem, long mixed accent
nom. sing.	ôvca
gen. sing.	ovcé
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	ôvca	ovcé	ovcé
genitive (rodȋlnik)	ovcé	ovác	ovác
dative (dajȃlnik)	ôvci	ovcáma	ovcàm
accusative (tožȋlnik)	ovcó	ovcé	ovcé
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	ôvci	ovcàh	ovcàh
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	ovcó	ovcáma	ovcámi