sjena

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• sȅna (Ekavian)
• sina (Chakavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěnь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sjêna/
• Hyphenation: sje‧na

Noun

sjȅna f (Cyrillic spelling сје̏на)

1. shadow

   Tamo gdje je svjetlo, mora postojati sjena, a gdje je sjena mora biti svjetlo

   Where light is, there must be a shadow, and where the shadow is, must be light.

2. silhouette
3. shade
4. umbrage
5. ghost
   • 1982, Jadranka Stojaković (lyrics and music), “Sve smo mogli mi”:

     Nikoga nema u praznom gradu
     Ulice moje korake kradu
     I ja kao sjena sad lutam.

     Nobody is around in the empty city
     the streets steal my paces
     and I am strolling like a ghost.

6. wraith
7. adumbration, shading
8. hatching

Declension

Declension of sjena

	singular	plural
nominative	sjȅna	sjene
genitive	sjene	sjȇnā
dative	sjeni	sjenama
accusative	sjenu	sjene
vocative	sjeno	sjene
locative	sjeni	sjenama
instrumental	sjenom	sjenama

Synonyms

• (Croatia) tijenje

Antonyms

• svjetlo

Further reading

• “sjena” in Hrvatski jezični portal