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pojam

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Czech pojem (possibly by Bogoslav Šulek); the Czech word is a calque of German Begriff. First attested in the 19th century.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pǒːjam/
  • Hyphenation: po‧jam

Noun

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pójam m (Cyrillic spelling по́јам)

  1. concept, idea, notion
    • 1987, Dragoslav Andrić, Graffiti international, 2nd edition, page 80:
      Njihova samouverenost
      potiče od činjenice
      da pojma nemaju šta rade
      Their self-confidence
      stems from the fact
      that they have no clue what they’re doing

Declension

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Declension of pojam
singular plural
nominative pojam pojmovi
genitive pojma pójmōvā
dative pojmu pojmovima
accusative pojam pojmove
vocative pojme pojmovi
locative pojmu pojmovima
instrumental pojmom pojmovima
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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “pójam”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 155

Further reading

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  • “pojam”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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