ćeif
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish كیف (keyif), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ɕěif/
- Hyphenation: će‧if
Noun
ćèif m inan (Cyrillic spelling ћѐиф)
- (chiefly Bosnia) will
- Synonym: vȍlja
- biti po ćeifu
- to be to someone's liking
- (chiefly Bosnia) enjoyment, pleasure, satisfaction
- Synonym: zadovòljstvo
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ćeif | ćeifi |
| genitive | ćeifa | ćȅīfā |
| dative | ćeifu | ćeifima |
| accusative | ćeif | ćeife |
| vocative | ćeife | ćeifi |
| locative | ćeifu | ćeifima |
| instrumental | ćeifom | ćeifima |
Derived terms
- ćeifiti / ćeifnuti
References
- “ćeif”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025