каханне

Belarusian

Alternative forms

• каха́ньне (kaxánʹnje) — Taraškievica orthography
• kachańnie — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Etymology

From каха́ць (kaxácʹ) +‎ -а́нне (-ánnje). Cognate with Polish kochanie and Ukrainian коха́ння (koxánnja).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kaˈxanʲːe]

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• Rhymes: -anʲːe
• Hyphenation: ка‧хан‧не

Noun

каха́нне • (kaxánnje) n inan (genitive каха́ння, nominative plural каха́нні, genitive plural каха́нняў)

1. (uncountable) love (a big heart feeling for a certain person of the opposite sex)

   Synonym: любо́ў (ljubóŭ)

2. (countable) dear one, loved one
3. (countable) relationship

Declension

Declension of каха́нне (inan soft neut-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	каха́нне kaxánnje	каха́нні kaxánni
genitive	каха́ння kaxánnja	каха́нняў kaxánnjaŭ
dative	каха́нню kaxánnju	каха́нням kaxánnjam
accusative	каха́нне kaxánnje	каха́нні kaxánni
instrumental	каха́ннем kaxánnjem	каха́ннямі kaxánnjami
locative	каха́нні kaxánni	каха́ннях kaxánnjax
count form	—	каха́нні1 kaxánni1

¹Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

References

• “каханне”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
• “каханне” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org