štafeta

See also: ștafetă, stafetă, and staféta

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stafette, ultimately from Italian staffetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃtafɛta]
• Hyphenation: šta‧fe‧ta

Noun

štafeta f

1. relay (athletics discipline)

Declension

Declension of štafeta (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	štafeta	štafety
genitive	štafety	štafet
dative	štafetě	štafetám
accusative	štafetu	štafety
vocative	štafeto	štafety
locative	štafetě	štafetách
instrumental	štafetou	štafetami

Further reading

• “štafeta”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “štafeta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “štafeta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stafette, from Italian staffetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtafěːta/
• Hyphenation: šta‧fe‧ta

Noun

štaféta f (Cyrillic spelling штафе́та)

1. relay (athletics discipline)

Declension

Declension of štafeta

	singular	plural
nominative	štafeta	štafete
genitive	štafete	štafeta
dative	štafeti	štafetama
accusative	štafetu	štafete
vocative	štafeto	štafete
locative	štafeti	štafetama
instrumental	štafetom	štafetama

References

• “štafeta”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025