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цвркутати

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Of onomatopoetic origin;[1] compare цврчак.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /t͡sʋrkǔtati/
  • Hyphenation: цвр‧ку‧та‧ти

Verb

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цврку̀тати impf (Latin spelling cvrkùtati)

  1. (intransitive) to twitter, chirp
  2. (intransitive) to warble (sing like a bird)

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “cvrkùtati”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 118

Further reading

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  • цвркутати”, in Raskovnik [Dictionary portal Raskovnik of the Institute for the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts] (in Serbo-Croatian), http://raskovnik.org, 2015–2024
  • цвркутати”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024