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Slovak
Etymology
From German Grippe + -ka.[1] Compare Czech chřipka.
Pronunciation
Noun
chrípka f (genitive singular chrípky, nominative plural chrípky, genitive plural chrípok, declension pattern of žena, related adjective chrípkový)
- influenza, flu (a contagious viral disease affecting mainly the respiratory organs)
deti nechodili do školy, lebo mali chrípku- children didn't go to school because they had the flu
Declension
References
- ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “chrípka”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 223
Further reading
- “chrípka”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024