No. 675 in Slovenian
kraju
The Slovenian word "kraju" is the dative or locative singular form of "kraj," meaning "place" or "location" in English.
In a sentence
Na koncu je našel pravi kraj za piknik.
In the end, he found the right place for the picnic.
Here, 'kraju' is a grammatical form of 'kraj', which means 'place'. It is in the locative case, used to indicate the location or setting where something happens.
V bližnjem kraju je potekal festival.
A festival took place in a nearby place.
In this sentence, 'kraju' illustrates the locative case, referring to a specific nearby place where the event occurred.
Odšli smo iz kraja, kjer smo prespali.
We left the place where we spent the night.
'Kraju' here represents 'kraj' in a specific grammatical context, displaying its function as the object of the preposition 'iz' with locative meaning.
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