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In Slovenian, verbs are conjugated for 3 persons and 3 numbers (singular, dual, and plural). There are 4 tenses (present, past, pluperfect, and future), 3 moods (indicative, imperative, and conditional) and 2 voices (active and passive). [4] [5] [6] Verbs also have 4 participles and 2 verbal nouns (infinitive and supine). [5]
The newest reference book of standard Slovene spelling (and to some extent also grammar) is the Slovenski pravopis (SP2001; Slovene Normative Guide). The latest printed edition was published in 2001 (reprinted in 2003 with some corrections) and contains more than 130,000 dictionary entries.
They correspond to the English participle in -ing, and indicate ongoing or current action. The first is an adjectival participle. It is formed by adding -eč to verbs with present stem in -i- or those ending in p / b / v + -e- or rarely any other consonant (which lose their final vowel), -joč to verbs with present stem in -a- (the vowel is ...
Jože Toporišič. Jože Toporišič (Slovene pronunciation: [ˈjóːʒɛ tɔpɔˈɾìːʃitʃ]; [1] October 11, 1926 – December 9, 2014) was a Slovene linguist.He was the author of the most influential Slovene scientific grammar of the second half of the 20th century, a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and coauthor of the Academy's Slovene Normative Guide (Slovene ...
Slovenian has eight vowels, but the Bohorič alphabet only has five vowel characters (this flaw is shared by modern Slovenian orthography). The combination "sh" could be read as two separate letters or as a digraph (although this is relevant for only a handful of words, such as shujšati 'to lose weight').
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The reflexive possessive and 'normal' possessive pronouns make some ambiguous English sentences perfectly clear in Slovene. The sentence "She has taken her towel into the bathroom" can be translated into the following two ways: Njeno brisačo je vzela v kopalnico. (the towel she has taken belongs to another person) Svojo brisačo je vzela v ...
A Google search for this purpose is irrelevant. Perhaps a noteworthy reference might be the only full English grammar of Slovene, Professor Peter Herrity's Slovene: A Comprehensive Grammar, which uses 'Slovene' in its name, as do most other works concentrating on the language in itself (Colloquial Slovene; A Basic Reference Grammar of Slovene ...