cudzinec
Slovak
Etymology
From cudzina (“foreign land”) + -ec.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sud͡ziɲet͡s/, [ˈt͡sud͡ziɲet͡s]
- Rhymes: -iɲet͡s
- Hyphenation: cu‧dzi‧nec
Noun
cudzinec m pers (female equivalent cudzinka, relational adjective cudzinecký)
- foreigner
- (rare) stranger (almost exclusively in Slovak translations of American Westerns, where the word stranger seems to occur a lot)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cudzinec | cudzinci |
| genitive | cudzinca | cudzincov |
| dative | cudzincovi | cudzincom |
| accusative | cudzinca | cudzincov |
| locative | cudzincovi | cudzincoch |
| instrumental | cudzincom | cudzincami |
Further reading
- “cudzinec”, 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, 2003–2026