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Time, days and hours in Slovenian

136 words in Slovenian on the topic “time, days and hours”: ura — hour, dan — day, danes — today, jutri — tomorrow. 136 words can be played from recordings.

Updated September 1, 2026 · Lingofly

136 words on the topic

  • ura
    hour
    The time unit and the watch at once — the clock on the wall is also ura. koliko je ura? asks the time of day.
  • dan
    day
    Covers both the day and the full twenty-four hours — there is no separate word for the day-and-night round. Two days take the dual: dva dneva.
  • danes
    today
    dan plus -es: literally "on this day".
  • jutri
    tomorrow
    j is "y": YOO-tree
  • včeraj
    yesterday
    v before a consonant sounds like "u", č is "ch": oo-CHEH-righ
  • jutro
    morning
    j is "y": YOO-troh
  • večer
    evening
    č is "ch": VEH-cher
  • noč
    night
    č is "ch": nohch
  • leto
    year
    The grand trap: leto is a year. Summer is poletje.
  • dvakrat na dan
    twice a day
    The suffix -krat is the "times": enkrat, dvakrat, trikrat. There is no separate word for "time(s)".
  • ob kateri uri?
    at what time?
    Literally "at which hour". The answer carries ob too: ob petih, "at five".
  • že je pozno
    it is already late
    ž is the "zh" of "measure"
  • zajtrk
    breakfast
    r works as a vowel: zightrk, no extra vowel between t and k
  • kosilo
    lunch
    The main meal of the day, around one. It only looks related to kos, "piece" — it is not.
  • večerja
    dinner
    č is "ch", stress the second syllable: veh-CHEH-ryah
  • najprej
    first (of all)
    literally most-early, a superlative of prej; stands first and shifts the short word: Najprej se stuširam; the row is najprej, potem, nazadnje; predvsem is about importance, najprej about time order
  • potem
    then
    stands at the head of the second half, often with pa: potem pa ...; the short word follows at once: Potem sem šel domov; add ko and you get the conjunction potem ko; in the sense in that case it stands in the same spot: Potem pa pojdimo
  • zatem
    after that
    one word, slightly bookier than potem, good for narrating in order: Najprej ... zatem ... nazadnje; stands first, no comma, shifts the short word: Zatem smo odšli; split za tem means behind that thing, literally
  • končno
    finally
    č = ch: KOHNCH-noh
  • medtem ko
    while
    a conjunction of two words, written apart, comma before it: Bral sem, medtem ko je ona kuhala; the short word comes after ko; without ko it stays the adverb medtem, meanwhile, opening its own sentence
  • hkrati
    at the same time
    The h is pronounced: HKRAH-tee
  • preden
    before
    one word, a conjunction, and the verb after it stands in the present or past — never the future, even for future events: Preden greš, zapri okno, not preden boš šel; unlike ko, where the future is compulsory; the comma before preden always goes in
  • potem ko
    after (conjunction)
    two words, written apart, comma before the phrase is compulsory: Odšel je, potem ko so ga poklicali; the short word goes after ko; careful: potem ko introduces a clause, lone potem starts its own sentence — mixing them leaves you without a verb
  • takoj ko
    as soon as
    two words with a comma in front: Pokliči me, takoj ko prideš; unlike preden, the future here is said with the future: takoj ko bom prišel; the bookish twin brž ko sounds in the news; the short word stands right behind ko
  • od takrat
    since then
    two words, "of what" form after od; stands first and shifts the short word: Od takrat se nisva videla; the bookish one-word version is odtlej; for the conjunction since use odkar: odkar živim tu
  • vedno
    always
    the usual spot is before the verb: vedno zamujam; at the front of the phrase it shifts the short word: Vedno se mi mudi; two key collocations: še vedno, still, and vedno bolj, more and more; the synonym zmeraj is heard across Slovenia and means exactly the same
  • pogosto
    often
    stands before the verb or first: Pogosto se vozim z vlakom; the spoken swap-in is velikokrat, many a time; the adjective pogost means frequent: pogosta napaka, pogosta vprašanja — the FAQ section on websites
  • redko
    rarely
    from redek, rare and thin alike: redka juha, a watery soup; stands before the verb: redko hodim ven; strengthen with zelo redko or komaj kdaj; the pair to pogosto, and both behave identically
  • včasih
    sometimes
    č = ch: FCHAH-seeh
  • nikoli
    never
    double negation is compulsory: nikoli ne grem; without the ne the sentence is wrong; stands before the verb or first: Nikoli se ne pritožujem; strengthen with nikoli več, never again
  • navadno
    usually
    from navada, a habit; stands before the verb or as the first word: Navadno se zbudim ob šestih; the neighbours are običajno, the same but bookier, and po navadi, out of habit, in two words; the adjective navaden means ordinary — another sense
  • dolgo
    for a long time
    stands beside the verb: dolgo sem čakal; turns: kako dolgo?, že dolgo, ne dolgo nazaj; a trap in the homonym: dolg is also a debt, and the adjective dolg means long
  • vsakič
    every time
    č = ch: FSAH-keech
  • od časa do časa
    from time to time
    č = ch: ohd CHAH-sah doh CHAH-sah
  • doslej
    so far
    one word, literally up to here, about time; it means up to the present moment and demands the past tense: Doslej ni bilo težav; still, in the sense yet, is še vedno with the present — one English phrase, two Slovenian words
  • nenadoma
    suddenly
    stands first and shifts the short word: Nenadoma se je zbudil; spoken swaps: kar naenkrat and na lepem, literally on the pretty; the other suddenly, as in what if, is kaj pa če: Kaj pa če ne pride?
  • vnaprej
    in advance
    written solid, literally forward; the usual spot is after the verb: rezervirati vnaprej, plačati vnaprej; two everyday turns: hvala vnaprej to close an email, vnaprej vem, I know in advance; split na prej does not exist
  • pravočasno
    in time
    č = ch: prah-voh-CHAH-snoh
  • nujno
    urgently
    two senses in one word: urgently — nujno moram k zdravniku — and necessarily: ni nujno means not necessarily, not it is not urgent; the second is even commoner in speech; the noun nuja is dire need, and the emergency service is nujna medicinska pomoč
  • takoj
    right away
    means immediately, on the spot: Takoj se vrnem; stands first or before the verb; do not confuse with kmalu, soon: takoj is within a minute, kmalu sometime soon; with ko it becomes the conjunction as soon as
  • postopoma
    gradually
    from stopnja, a step — literally step by step; stands before the verb or at the end: cene so postopoma rasle; the spoken swap-in is počasi, slowly, which in living speech often means exactly gradually: počasi se navajam
  • v zadnjem trenutku
    at the last moment
    Nj is a soft "ny", as in "canyon": v-ZAHD-nyehm-treh-NOOT-koo
  • prej ali slej
    sooner or later
    literally earlier or later — Slovenian counts from the moment, not from the day; stands first and shifts the short word: Prej ali slej se bo izvedelo; the word order is fixed, do not swap them; the synonym enkrat pač is someday anyway
  • nekoč
    once (upon a time)
    Č is "ch" as in "church": neh-KOHCH
  • v otroštvu
    in childhood
    Št sounds like "sht": v-oht-ROHSH-tvoo
  • v tistih časih
    in those days
    Č is "ch" as in "church": v-TEES-teeh-CHAH-seeh
  • to je bilo davno
    it was long ago
    davno is about a distant past, dolgo about duration: to je trajalo dolgo; mixing them is a frequent error
  • prvič
    for the first time
    Č is "ch" as in "church", the r stands without a vowel and holds the syllable: puhrv-eech
  • prihodnost
    future
    from priti, to come: the future is what comes; the future tense of the verb is named the same way — prihodnjik; in the future is v prihodnosti
  • preteklost
    the past
    from preteči, to flow past; the pair preteklost — prihodnost is built like past — future; the present is sedanjost
  • načrti za bližnjo prihodnost
    plans for the near future
    Č is "ch" as in "church", ž is "zh" as in "vision", the r of načrti stands without a vowel: nah-CHUHR-tee-zah-BLEEZH-nyoh-pree-HOHD-nohst
  • čez leto dni
    in a year
    Č is "ch" as in "church": chehz-LEH-toh-dnee
  • nenehno
    constantly
    from nehati, to stop — literally non-stopping; stalno and ves čas also walk around: all three are everyday
  • začasno
    temporarily
    Č is "ch" as in "church": zah-CHAHS-noh
  • primeren čas
    a convenient time
    Č is "ch" as in "church": pree-MEH-rehn-chahs
  • določiti uro
    set a time
    Č is "ch" as in "church": doh-LOH-chee-tee-OO-roh
  • popoldne
    in the afternoon
    one word instead of four English ones: po poldne, after midday; the morning is dopoldne, the evening zvečer; written solid and indeclinable
  • proti večeru
    towards evening
    Č is "ch" as in "church": PROH-tee-veh-CHEH-roo
  • kadar koli
    any time
    the particle koli turns a question word into an any-word: kdor koli, kamor koli; written apart
  • ne pred peto
    not before five
    the hour is an ordinal number in the instrumental: pred peto, ob peti; the word uro is usually dropped
  • bom točen
    I will be on time
    Č is "ch" as in "church": bohm-TOH-chehn
  • dokler ne
    until (not yet)
    the negation is compulsory, as in English: Počakaj, dokler ne pride; dokler without ne means as long as
  • stoletje
    century
    literally a hundred-year: sto plus leto; the ordinal goes before it: devetnajsto stoletje; a centenary anniversary is stoletnica, while the stretch of a hundred years is always stoletje; vek means something else and lives only in na veke, forever
  • doba
    era
    a large stretch of time: ledena doba, the ice age, doba Marije Terezije; also the service life of a thing: življenjska doba
  • desetletje
    decade
    built like stoletje: deset plus leto; v zadnjem desetletju, in the last decade; a ten-year anniversary is desetletnica
  • obdobje
    period (of time)
    from doba with the prefix ob-: a stretch with a beginning and an end; prehodno obdobje, a transition period, obdobje dežja, the rainy season
  • hip
    instant (split second)
    the shortest stretch: v hipu, in a flash, vsak hip, any moment now; a somewhat longer moment is trenutek, which sounds commoner
  • dolgotrajen
    prolonged
    from dolgo and trajati, to last; dolgotrajno zdravljenje, dolgotrajen postopek; in the definite form the e drops: dolgotrajni spor
  • te dni
    any day now
    the object plural with no preposition: te dni, in these days, soon; about the past zadnje dni, about the future v prihodnjih dneh
  • dandanes
    nowadays
    one word from dan and danes: nowadays, in our time; a synonym is danes or v današnjem času
  • od nekdaj
    since time immemorial
    literally from a never-time: it has always been so; že od nekdaj, from of old; the solemn version od pamtiveka is almost never said
  • v nekaj minutah
    within minutes
    Slovenian says in a few minutes, with the "where at" form after v; even shorter v hipu or v trenutku
  • sodoben
    contemporary
    from so- and doba: of the same era as us; sodobna umetnost, sodobna tehnologija; the loan moderni is understood, but texts carry sodoben
  • starodaven
    ancient
    from star and davno, long ago; starodavni običaj, starodavno mesto; plain star simply means old, with no whiff of millennia
  • nekdanji časi
    bygone days
    Č is "ch" as in "church": nehk-DAH-nyee-CHAH-see
  • poredko
    very rarely
    from redek, rare, with the po- intensifier: not often at all; redko is simply rarely, poredko rarer still
  • dnevno
    daily
    from dan; timetables and notices carry dnevno, speech says vsak dan; hence dnevna soba, the living room, and dnevnik, a diary
  • redno
    regularly
    from red, order: on schedule, with no misses; redno hodi na treninge; the adjective reden also means full-time: redni študij
  • prvikrat
    the very first time
    the same as prvič, only longer and more at home in storytelling: prvikrat v življenju; prvič also means firstly, and that keeps the two apart
  • na novo
    anew
    literally onto new: napisati na novo, to rewrite; people also say znova and spet, but na novo stresses starting from the beginning
  • vse pogosteje
    more and more often
    vse plus a comparative is the Slovenian way of saying ever more: vse pogosteje, vse težje, vse dlje; from pogosto, often
  • ob delavnikih
    on weekdays
    delavnik is a working day, ob delavnikih on weekdays; the weekend is ob koncu tedna; the preposition ob with the "where at" form, as in ob petkih
  • vsak drugi krat
    every other time
    literally every second time; built the same way: vsak drugi dan, every other day, vsak drugi teden, every other week
  • enkrat na leto
    once a year
    frequency through na: enkrat na leto, dvakrat na teden, trikrat na dan; the preposition na with the object form
  • kar naprej
    non-stop
    literally straight onward: time after time, without end; kar naprej zvoni telefon; nearby lives vsake toliko, every so often, which is weaker
  • medtem
    meanwhile
    one word: medtem sem skuhal kosilo; with ko it becomes the conjunction medtem ko, while, introducing a full clause
  • vzporedno
    in parallel
    about lines and about affairs: vzporedno z delom študira; the adjective vzporeden means parallel; the loan paralelno is understood too
  • do takrat
    until then
    from takrat, then; when a clause follows, Slovenian takes dokler ne: Dokler ne pride, počakaj
  • naknadno
    subsequently
    literally added-on, later: naknadno so ugotovili napako; in speech people more often say pozneje or kasneje
  • dan prej
    the day before
    literally a day earlier; there is also the bookish na predvečer, on the eve; the evening itself before a holiday is sveti večer, predvečer
  • v prihodnje
    from now on
    literally into the future: v prihodnje bodi previdnejši; the noun prihodnost is the future, v prihodnosti in the future
  • tokrat
    this time
    one word from ta and krat: tokrat, prejšnjič last time, naslednjič next time — a whole row of adverbs in place of English phrases
  • ob pravem času
    at just the right time
    Č is "ch" as in "church": ohb-PRAH-vehm-CHAH-soo
  • za nazaj
    retroactively
    literally for backward: plačati za nazaj, to pay for a past period, veljati za nazaj, to apply retroactively; nazaj is back
  • brez odlašanja
    without delay
    Š is "sh" as in "ship": brehz-ohd-LAH-shah-nyah
  • februar
    February
    «Februarja» means in February: this form appears in the example. The month itself is «februar».
  • marec
    March
    c is "ts": MAH-rets
  • april
    April
    Stress the i: ah-PREEL. prvi april is April Fools’ Day, same game as at home.
  • maj
    May
    j is "y": migh
  • junij
    June
    j is "y" both times: YOO-nee
  • avgust
    August
    v before a consonant sounds like "u": OW-goost
  • september
    September
    The school year starts on prvega septembra. In the oblique cases the second e drops: septembra.
  • oktober
    October
    Drops its vowel too: oktobra, oktobru. At the end of October the clocks go back.
  • november
    November
    On the first comes dan spomina na mrtve, the day of remembrance: the country pauses and the cemeteries glow with candles.
  • december
    December
    c is "ts" both times: de-TSEM-ber
  • minuta
    minute
    After five it takes "of what" plural: pet minut, but dve minuti, the dual. čez minute is "in a minute".
  • sekunda
    second (time)
    "Just a second" uses a different phrase: samo trenutek, "just a moment".
  • pol ure
    half an hour
    Literally "half of the hour": pol demands the "of what" form — pol ure, pol leta, pol kile. Written as two words.
  • poldne
    noon
    An unusual "of what" form, poldneva: do poldneva. "At noon" fuses into one word, opoldne.
  • polnoč
    midnight
    č is "ch": POHL-nohch
  • štiriindvajset ur
    twenty-four hours
    š is "sh", j is "y": shtee-ree-in-DVIGH-set oor, no pause
  • stoletnica
    centenary
    c is "ts": sto-LET-nee-tsah
  • zdaj
    now
    j is "y": zdigh
  • rok
    deadline (term)
    A word of paperwork and packaging: rok uporabe, "best before"; rok za oddajo, "submission deadline".
  • naslednji
    next
    Exactly what the clerk calls out in a queue: Naslednji! Literally "walking in the track".
  • prejšnji
    previous
    From prej, "earlier". With time words it goes without any preposition: prejšnji teden.
  • zamujati
    to be late
    The perfective is zamuditi, and it also means "to miss": zamudil sem vlak, "I missed the train".
  • utegniti
    to make it in time
    In live speech people more often say prispeti pravočasno — "arrive at the right time".
  • spet
    again
    Short and the most common. The equivalent ponovno is longer and more bookish.
  • kmalu
    soon
    Inside you can see malo — "a little time". na kmalu is not said: no preposition needed.
  • davno
    long ago
    About a finished past. "We have not seen each other for a long time" is built differently: dolgo se nisva videla.
  • nedavno
    recently
    Written as one word. The equivalent pred kratkim is literally "a short while before".
  • pozno
    late
    From it comes pozneje, "later". It is no relative of any greeting.
  • zgodaj
    early
    A native word with no English look-alike, so it needs memorizing. The comparative is prej, from another root.
  • hitro
    quickly
    From it comes the verb hiteti, "to hurry". The comparative is hitreje.
  • pravkar
    just now
    Inside sits prav, "just, exactly". Literally "this very instant".
  • zjutraj
    in the morning
    The adverb has fused with its preposition — there is no separate z jutraj. Tomorrow morning is jutri zjutraj: two words of one root in a row.
  • podnevi
    in the daytime
    The partner of ponoči. Čez dan is not the same thing: that is "during the day", podnevi is "in daylight".
  • zvečer
    in the evening
    č is "ch": zveh-CHER
  • ponoči
    at night
    č is "ch": poh-NOH-chee
  • vsak dan
    every day
    Stands in the object form of time, but for dan that case looks exactly like the plain form — you will not hear any difference.
  • ves dan
    all day
    ves is "the whole of it", vsak is "every": one letter decides whether the day is taken whole or repeated daily.
  • trenutek
    moment
    The fleeting e drops out in declension: trenutka. The adverb trenutno means "right now, this minute".
  • stenska ura
    wall clock
    ura alone means both "hour" and "clock"; the device is pinned down by an add-on: stenska for wall, ročna for wrist.
  • koliko je ura
    what time is it?
    Literally "how much is the hour". The answer flips the order: Ura je pet — "the hour is five".
  • kdaj
    ever
    The same kdaj as "when?", placed inside the sentence: Si bil kdaj v Ljubljani? Pridi še kdaj is "come again some time". kadarkoli is "anytime, whenever".

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ura — hour. The time unit and the watch at once — the clock on the wall is also ura. koliko je ura? asks the time of day.

dan — day. Covers both the day and the full twenty-four hours — there is no separate word for the day-and-night round. Two days take the dual: dva dneva.

danes — today. Dan plus -es: literally "on this day".

jutri — tomorrow. From jutro, "morning": tomorrow begins in the morning.

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