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kad

kad

See also: kʼad, kád, and káď

Ido

Alternative forms

  • ka (often used before a consonant)

Particle

kad

  1. whether, if
    Me dubitas kad il venos.
    I doubt whether he will come.
  2. used at the beginning of a sentence to turn it into a question
    Kad il amas me?
    Does he love me?

Latvian

Adverb

kad

  1. when
  2. once

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷod.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kɐd]

Conjunction

kàd

  1. that
    manau, kad ji graži.
    I think that she is beautiful.
  2. when
  3. 'cause
  4. so as to, in order to
    • 2007, Jurga, Angelai
      Tupi angelai užsimerkę, kad nematytų darai.
      Sitting angels closed their eyes so as not to see what you are doing.

Synonyms


Lojban

Rafsi

kad

  1. rafsi of kandi.

Malay

Etymology

From English card

Noun

kad

  1. card (flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *kogъda, a compound of *ko (from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos) and *gъda, genitive singular of *godъ (compare Old Church Slavonic годъ (godŭ, right time)), thus originally meaning "at what time".

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kâd/

Conjunction

kȁd (Cyrillic spelling ка̏д)

  1. (interrogative) when
    Kad ćeš doći? — When will you come?
  2. when
    Ne znam kad ću stići na sastanak. — I don't know when I will arrive at the meeting.
    Samo što je pala noć, kad poče kiša. — The night has just fallen, when the rain began.
  3. if
    Kad bih samo imao malo više slobodnog vremena.. — If only I had a little more free time...
  4. in miscellaneous constructs
    kad(a) god — whenever
    malo kad — rarely
    kad-tad — sooner or later
    (t)ko zna kad — who knows when

Adverb

kȁd (Cyrillic spelling ка̏д)

  1. ever (compare ȉkad)
    Da li si kad bio u Beču? — Have you ever been to Vienna?
  2. sometimes (compare nȅkad)
    Idem na posao kad tramvajem, kad autobusom. — I go to work sometimes by tram, and sometimes by bus.
    kako kad, kad kako — sometimes this way, sometimes that way
  3. in miscellaneous constructs
    imati kad (za..) — to have enough time (for..)
    Nisam imao kad da ti se javim. — I didn't have enough time to call you.
Synonyms
  • (Croatia) gda

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *kadъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kâːd/

Noun

kȃd m (Cyrillic spelling ка̑д)

  1. incense
Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic, from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkát/
  • Tonal orthography: kȁd

Noun

kàd f (genitive kadí, nominative plural kadí)

  1. tub

Declension