Used in a Sentence

slovene

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for slovene.

Editorial note

And don’t worry, they announce all of that exclusively in Slovene with no extra answers.

Examples18
Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A person from Slovenia.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of slovene gathered in one view.

noun

A person from Slovenia.

noun

The South Slavic language of the Slovenes and the official language of Slovenia.

adjective

Of or pertaining to Slovenia, the Slovenes or the Slovene language.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for slovene.

noun

A person from Slovenia.

noun

The South Slavic language of the Slovenes and the official language of Slovenia.

adjective

Of or pertaining to Slovenia, the Slovenes or the Slovene language.

Example sentences

1

And don’t worry, they announce all of that exclusively in Slovene with no extra answers.

2

Translating the OS to Slovene really just costs whatever a translation service costs, plus review & a bit of ongoing maintenance.

3

Using Slovene translations just feels weird unless they're a bastardisation of the English word.

4

Can you tell a significant difference between a Slovene and a Hungarian, for example?

5

Great attitude, and from one Slovene founder to another, keep on rocking it:).

6

Czech, Slovene and Russian has 1, 2-4 and 5 as different cases.

7

I guess it works for typing English but Slovene didn't get such good support.

8

For example in terms of a pronunciation feature called coda devoicing, Slovene dialects near the Austrian border will pattern with German, those near the Croatian border will pattern with Croatian, while Standard Slovene will have something in the middle.

9

I wonder if GP was referring specifically to Serbo-Croat or Slovene music:)?

10

I doubt any phone shipped with a Slovene dictionary for T9, so it was probably just doing its best trying to map my seemingly nonsensical keypresses onto English words.

11

From wikipedia: > The ritual was performed in the Slovene language by a free peasant who, selected by his peers, in the name of the people of the land questioned the new Prince about his integrity and reminded him of his duties.

12

The thing that I found interesting was during trump’s visit to the Vatican, he asked trump’s Slovenian wife if she was feeding him potica which indicated a surprising level of knowledge of the cuisine of a country which is largely insignificant on the world stage (as someone who’s half Slovene and has a loaf of potica on his kitchen counter, I think I can safely make that declaration).

Quote examples

1

(If you say “just add s to make the plural” then you really need to get out more!) > For two, some languages (such as Slovene) have a “dual” number in addition to singular and plural.

2

As someone living in a slavic country, i never understood the english/americans and their spelling bees, because 99% of the words in my language (slovene) can be spelled by phonetics (with some, but few exceptions), but english had a bunch of weird rules and extra letters, especially when you come to british (ahem "leicester").

3

Here’s the ritual, from Wikipedia: > The peasant, sitting on the Stone, was representing the people during the ceremony and he had to ask in Slovene: "Who is he, that comes forward?" Those sitting around him would reply: "He is the prince of the land".

Proper noun examples

1

Slovene, which has roughly the same gender and case as other Slavic languages manages to not have gendered surnames.

2

We thought the same when the Slovenian government passed a law requiring Apple (among others) to translate their operating systems to Slovene.

3

Slovene and German are only very distantly related.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use slovene in a sentence?

And don’t worry, they announce all of that exclusively in Slovene with no extra answers.

What does slovene mean?

A person from Slovenia.

What part of speech is slovene?

slovene is commonly used as noun, adjective.