LingoflyCaring, curly, chatty: recognizing words about a person
To describe a person, use words about character and appearance: skromen — modest, kodrast — curly. A short ending can help you recognize these words. Skrb — care, skrben — caring: here -en is added. Resen means serious; you don't need to break every word into pieces. For example: “Skromen človek redko govori o sebi” — A modest person rarely talks about themselves. A rule from the Slovenian course: worked out on…
How it works
To describe a person, use words about character and appearance: skromen — modest, kodrast — curly. A short ending can help you recognize these words. Skrb — care, skrben — caring: here -en is added. Resen means serious; you don't need to break every word into pieces.
Koder — a curl, kodrast — curly: -ast helps describe appearance. It also occurs in character: trma — stubbornness, trmast — stubborn. Klepetati — to chat, klepetav — chatty: -av links the word to habitual behaviour.
-ljiv often links a description to an action, but its meaning varies. Potrpežljiv is patient; zanesljiv is reliable, someone you can rely on. The ending helps you recognize the word, not replace its meaning.
Table
| word ending | word on its own | word about a person | meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| -en | skrb — care | skrben | caring |
| -ast | koder — a curl | kodrast | curly |
| -ast | trma — stubbornness | trmast | stubborn |
| -av | klepetati — to chat | klepetav | chatty |
| -ljiv | potrpeti — to endure | potrpežljiv | patient |
| -ljiv | zanesti se — to rely on | zanesljiv | reliable |
By example
How the rule settles in your head
A rule is not memorized from an explanation. It is memorized from an attempt to use it and a mistake — that is why the app delivers it mixed in with words, not as a separate lesson: it resurfaces exactly where you forgot it.
Frequently asked
Caring, curly, chatty: how does it work in Slovenian?
To describe a person, use words about character and appearance: skromen — modest, kodrast — curly. A short ending can help you recognize these words. Skrb — care, skrben — caring: here -en is added. Resen means serious; you don't need to break every word into pieces.
What does it look like in a Slovenian example sentence?
“Skromen človek redko govori o sebi” — A modest person rarely talks about themselves. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.