ushqim

Albanian

Etymology

Gerund of ushqej (“to feed”); ushqej +‎ -im.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uʃˈcim/, [u̞ʃˈc͡çim]

Noun

ushqim m (plural ushqime, definite ushqimi, definite plural ushqimet)

1. food

   Synonym: bukë

Declension

Declension of ushqim

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ushqim	ushqimi	ushqime	ushqimet
accusative		ushqimin
dative	ushqimi	ushqimit	ushqimeve	ushqimeve
ablative			ushqimesh

Verbal nouns in -im are grammatically masculine when singular and grammatically feminine in the plural.

Further reading

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• “ushqim”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Newmark, L. (1999) “ushqim”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]