svest

See also: svést

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• svijȇst (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From s- +‎ vest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʋêːst/

Noun

svȇst f (Cyrillic spelling све̑ст)

1. consciousness

   izgubiti svest ― to lose consciousness

   • 1996, United Nations, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Serbian”, in UDHR in Unicode‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 July 2021:

     Sva ljudska bića rađaju se slobodna i jednaka u dostojanstvu i pravima. Ona su obdarena razumom i svešću i treba jedni prema drugima da postupaju u duhu bratstva.

     All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Declension

Declension of svest

	singular	plural
nominative	svest	svesti
genitive	svesti	svesti
dative	svesti	svestima
accusative	svest	svesti
vocative	svesti	svesti
locative	svesti	svestima
instrumental	svešću / svesti	svestima

Derived terms

• pȍdsvēst

References

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