No. 88 in Slovenian

mestu

"Mestu" is the dative or locative singular form of "mesto," meaning "city" or "town" in English.

In a sentence

Srečamo se v mestu.
We meet in the city.
In this sentence, 'mestu' represents the locative case of 'mesto', meaning 'city', indicating the place where the action occurs.
Živim blizu mesta.
I live near the city.
Here, 'mesta' is in the genitive case due to it being used in a prepositional phrase indicating location relative to another object or location.
Mesto je zelo lepo.
The city is very beautiful.
In this sentence, 'mesto' is in the nominative case, being used as the subject of the sentence, describing the city itself.

Hear it in real podcasts

The recording above is a synthetic voice. Hear how people say “mestu” in actual Slovenian podcasts.

Learn it from shows you like

LangTurbo plays Slovenian podcasts with a transcript and the English under every line. Tap a word like this one and it tells you what it means right there. For iPhone, iPad and Android.

Get the appDownload on the App Store Get the app Get it on Google Play

Slovenian books and courses on Amazon (an affiliate link: a purchase through it supports this site).