padež

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Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *padežь.

The sense of “grammatical case” is a calque of Latin casus, which is also derived from the verb for falling, cadō. Compare Bulgarian паде́ж (padéž), Russian паде́ж (padéž).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

pádež m (Cyrillic spelling па́деж)

  1. (grammar) case
  2. waterfall

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