tjedan

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъdьnь, which means "the same day" (after 7 days). More at Proto-Slavic *tъdьnь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tjêdan/

Noun

tjȅdan m (Cyrillic spelling тје̏дан)

1. (usually Croatia) week (period of seven days)

Declension

Declension of tjedan

	singular	plural
nominative	tjedan	tjedni
genitive	tjedna	tjedana
dative	tjednu	tjednima
accusative	tjedan	tjedne
vocative	tjedne	tjedni
locative	tjednu	tjednima
instrumental	tjednom	tjednima

Synonyms

• nèdelja / nèdjelja / nèđelja (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro)
• sèdmica (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro)

Derived terms

• tjȅdnī (“weekly”)
• tjȅdnīk (“weekly newspaper”)

Further reading

• “tjedan”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
• Josip Jedvaj, editor (1962–1966), “tjedan, tjȅdan, tjȅdna”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 18, Zagreb: JAZU, page 362
• Josip Jedvaj, editor (1962–1966), “tajdan i tajdanački”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[2] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 18, Zagreb: JAZU, page 8
• Skok, Petar (1973) “taj 1”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 3 (poni² – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 431