Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic сꙑ (sy), from Proto-Slavic *sy. Doublet of sući.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sûːʃtiː/
  • Hyphenation: suš‧ti

Adjective

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sȗštī (Cyrillic spelling су̑штӣ)

  1. (used for emphasis) pure, very, true, same
    sušta istina — the bare truth
    sušta pohlepa — pure greed

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Josip Jedvaj, editor (1959–1962), “sušti”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 17, Zagreb: JAZU, page 77
  • Josip Jedvaj, editor (1956–1958), “1. sući”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika[2] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 16, Zagreb: JAZU, page 878