kad
Iban edit
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kad
Ido edit
Alternative forms edit
- ka (often used before a consonant)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit कदा (kadā), Japanese か (ka).
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kad
Latvian edit
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kad
Lithuanian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *kʷod.
Pronunciation edit
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kàd
Livonian edit
Alternative forms edit
- ka'd (Courland)
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *kadëh, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *skaþiz. Cognates include Finnish kade.
Adjective edit
kad
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kad
Malay edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kad (Jawi spelling کد, plural kad-kad, informal 1st possessive kadku, 2nd possessive kadmu, 3rd possessive kadnya)
- card (flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.)
Alternative forms edit
- kartu (Indonesia)
Further reading edit
- “kad” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kogъda, a compound of *ko (from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos) and *gъda, genitive singular of *godъ (compare Old Church Slavonic годъ (godŭ, “right time”)), thus originally meaning "at what time".
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Conjunction edit
kȁd (Cyrillic spelling ка̏д)
- (interrogative, relative) when
- Kad ćeš doći? ― When will you come?
- Ne znam kad ću stići na sastanak. ― I don't know when I will arrive at the meeting.
- Vjetar je prestao puhati baš kad je počelo kišiti. ― The wind stopped blowing just when it began raining.
- (subjunctive only) if, if only (= da)
- Kad bih samo imao malo više slobodnog vremena. ― If only I had a little more free time.
- used in miscellaneous phrases relating to time
- kad god ― whenever
- malo kad ― rarely (literally, “little when”)
- kad-tad ― sooner or later (literally, “when-then”)
- (t)ko zna kad ― who knows when
Usage notes edit
As a conjunction with the sense of "if", kad, just like synonymous da, is only used in subjunctive mood, to express what one wishes were the case or hypothetical situations contrary to reality in general. For all other uses, ako is used instead.
Adverb edit
kȁd (Cyrillic spelling ка̏д)
- (informal, shortening of ikad) ever
- Jesi li kad bio u Beču? ― Have you ever been to Vienna?
- (informal, shortening of ponekad) sometimes
- Idem na posao kad tramvajem, kad autobusom. ― I go to work sometimes by tram, and sometimes by bus.
- used in miscellaneous phrases relating to time
- Nisam imao kad da ti se javim.
- I didn't have enough time to call you.
- (literally, “I didn't have when to call you.”)
- Trebao sam već otići u trgovinu, a sad se samo nadam da ću imati kad.
- I should have gone to the shop already, but now I just hope I will have the time to.
- (literally, “I should have gone to the shop already, but now I just hope I will have when.”)
Synonyms edit
- gda (Croatia)
Further reading edit
- “kad” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kadъ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kȃd m (Cyrillic spelling ка̑д)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- “kad” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *kadь (“cask”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κάδιον (kádion).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kȁd f
Inflection edit
Feminine, i-stem, long mixed accent | |||
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nom. sing. | kàd | ||
gen. sing. | kadí | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
kàd | kadí | kadí |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
kadí | kadí | kadí |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
kádi | kadéma | kadém |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
kàd | kadí | kadí |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
kádi | kadéh | kadéh |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
kadjó | kadéma | kadmí |
Further reading edit
- “kad”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Distorted abbreviation of French cathéter à demeure.
Noun edit
kad c
- (colloquial) short for a catheter
- Synonym: kateter
- Kan du vara snäll och hämta en kad?
- Would you be a dear and fetch me a catheter?
- (colloquial) an IUC, indwelling urinary catheter