Andrej

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέας (Andréas), cognate with ἀνδρεῖος (andreîos, “manly”), both from ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈandrɛj]

Proper noun

Andrej m anim

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew

Declension

Declension of Andrej (soft masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Andrej	Andrejové
genitive	Andreje	Andrejů
dative	Andrejovi, Andreji	Andrejům
accusative	Andreje	Andreje
vocative	Andreji	Andrejové
locative	Andrejovi, Andreji	Andrejích
instrumental	Andrejem	Andreji

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέας (Andréas), cognate with ἀνδρεῖος (andreîos, “manly”), both from ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).

Proper noun

Àndrej m (Cyrillic spelling А̀ндреј)

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew

Declension

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Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέας (Andréas), cognate with ἀνδρεῖος (andreîos, “manly”), both from ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈandrɛj/

Proper noun

Andrej m anim (genitive singular Andreja, nominative plural Andrejovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew

Declension

Declension of Andrej

	singular	plural
nominative	Andrej	Andrejovia
genitive	Andreja	Andrejov
dative	Andrejovi	Andrejom
accusative	Andreja	Andrejov
locative	Andrejovi	Andrejoch
instrumental	Andrejom	Andrejmi

Derived terms

• Andráš
• Andráško
• Andrejko

 

Further reading

• “Andrej”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέας (Andréas), cognate with ἀνδρεῖος (andreîos, “manly”), both from ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /andrɛ̀ːj/

Proper noun

Andréj m anim

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew

Inflection

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Masculine anim., soft o-stem
nominative	Andrêj
genitive	Andrêja
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Andrêj
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Andrêja
dative (dajȃlnik)	Andrêju
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Andrêja
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Andrêju
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Andrêjem