groblje
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
From grob + -je; see grob for more.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
grȏblje n (Cyrillic spelling гро̑бље)
- cemetery, graveyard
- Ovo groblje je napravljeno pre 200 godina. ― This graveyard was made 200 years ago.
- 1886, Ksaver Šandor Đalski, “Na Groblju”, in Pod Starimi Krovovi:
- Da dođemo onamo, bilo nam je ići preko seoskoga groblja. Uđosmo na razrušena, polupana vrata. Lugari i pogoniči odoše naprijed da se poređaju, a mi otpočinusmo. Ovako umorni povalismo se na prvu ledinu.
- To get there, we had to go through the village cemetery. We went in through the dilapidated, broken down gate. The foresters and beaters went off ahead to line things up and we rested a bit. Then, tired, we spread out over the first field.
Declension edit
Declension of groblje
Related terms edit
References edit
- “groblje” in Hrvatski jezični portal