kazna
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kaznь, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂⸝₃ǵ-n-, see also Old Irish cáin (“tribute, law”), Welsh digon.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kâzna/
- Hyphenation: ka‧zna
Noun
kȁzna f (Cyrillic spelling ка̏зна)
- punishment
- smrtna kazna ― capital punishment
- Zločin i kazna ― Crime and Punishment
- penalty
- smrtna kazna ― death penalty
- ticket
- kazna za prekoračenje brzine ― speeding ticket
- kazna za nepropisno parkiranje ― parking ticket
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | kazna | kazne |
| genitive | kazne | kȃznā / kȃznī |
| dative | kazni | kaznama |
| accusative | kaznu | kazne |
| vocative | kazno | kazne |
| locative | kazni | kaznama |
| instrumental | kaznom | kaznama |
See also
- glòba
- nema kazne, nema zakona (Nulla poena, nulla lex)
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “ka(g)ni-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 183-84
Further reading
- “kazna”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025