svest

See also: svést

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From s- +‎ vest.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʋêːst/

Noun

svȇst f (Cyrillic spelling све̑ст)

  1. consciousness
    izgubiti svest ― to lose consciousness
    • 1996, United Nations, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Serbian”, in UDHR in Unicode‎[1], archived from the original on 27 July 2021:
      Sva ljudska bića rađaju se slobodna i jednaka u dostojanstvu i pravima. Ona su obdarena razumom i svešću i treba jedni prema drugima da postupaju u duhu bratstva.
      All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Declension

Declension of svest
singular plural
nominative svȇst svȇsti
genitive svȇsti svéstī
dative svȇsti svéstima
accusative svȇst svȇsti
vocative svȇsti svȇsti
locative svésti svéstima
instrumental svȇšću svéstima

Derived terms

References

  • “svest”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
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