Serbo-Croatian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kapětaːn/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧pe‧tan

Noun edit

kapètān m (Cyrillic spelling капѐта̄н)

  1. captain (rank)
    Synonym: (Croatian) sȁtnīk
  2. (Croatia) captain (of a team)
    Synonym: (Bosnian, Serbian) kapiten

Declension edit

Further reading edit

  • kapetan” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

kapẹ̑tan m anim (female equivalent kapétanka)

  1. captain (an army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major)
  2. captain (one of the athletes on a sports team who designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official)

Inflection edit

 
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Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing. kapétan
gen. sing. kapétana
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
kapétan kapétana kapétani
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
kapétana kapétanov kapétanov
dative
(dajȃlnik)
kapétanu kapétanoma kapétanom
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
kapétana kapétana kapétane
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
kapétanu kapétanih kapétanih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
kapétanom kapétanoma kapétani

Further reading edit

  • kapetan”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran