No. 801 in Slovenian
cesto
"Cesto" in Slovenian means "road" or "street" in English.
In a sentence
Na cesti sem videl rdeč avto.
On the road, I saw a red car.
In this sentence, 'cesti' is used in the locative case to denote a location, specifically that something is occurring on the street or road.
Moramo prečkati cesto, da pridemo do trgovine.
We need to cross the road to get to the store.
Here, 'cesto' is used in the accusative case as the direct object of the verb 'prečkati', meaning 'to cross', indicating the action of crossing the road.
Delo na cesti bo trajalo naslednjih nekaj tednov.
Roadwork will last for the next few weeks.
The word 'cesti' appears in the locative form again, describing where the work is happening, specifically on the road.
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