kamen

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See also: Kamen, kámen, kämen, kåmen, and kameň

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

kamen n

  1. genitive plural of kamna

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

kamen

  1. first/third-person plural preterite of kommen

Japanese

Romanization

kamen

  1. Rōmaji transcription of かめん

Karao

Noun

kamen

  1. sleeping mat

Low German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Low German kōmen, from Old Saxon kuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-.

Compare Dutch komen, German kommen, West Frisian komme, English come, Danish komme.

Pronunciation

Verb

kamen (third-person singular simple present kümmt, past keem, past participle kamen, auxiliary verb wesen)

  1. to come
  2. to happen, to arise, to come to be, to be caused
    Worüm fallt allens alltiet hendaal? — Dat kümmt vunwegen de Swoorkraft.
    Why does everything always fall downwards? — That happens because of gravity.
    Woans kümmt?
    How come?
  3. (intransitive) to come on; to cooperate; to join
    Ach kümm, dat will al nich so slimm warrn.
    Aw, come on, it won’t be so bad.
    Kaamt, deckt doch schöön mal de Disch.
    Come on, just set the table .

Conjugation

Other spellings and forms:

  • First person singular present indicative: kam
  • First and third person singular past subjunctive: kem/kem'

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Morphologically kam +‎ -en, from the oblique stem of Proto-Slavic *kamy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kâmeːn/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧men

Noun

kȁmēn m (Cyrillic spelling ка̏ме̄н)

  1. stone

Declension

Further reading

  • kamen” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

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Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kamy.

Pronunciation

Noun

kámən m inan

  1. stone

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing. kámen
gen. sing. kámna
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
kámen kámna kámni
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
kámna kámnov kámnov
dative
(dajȃlnik)
kámnu kámnoma kámnom
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
kámen kámna kámne
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
kámnu kámnih kámnih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
kámnom kámnoma kámni

Further reading

  • kamen”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran