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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From s- + vest.
Pronunciation
Noun
svȇst f (Cyrillic spelling све̑ст)
- consciousness
- izgubiti svest ― to lose consciousness
1996, United Nations, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Serbian”, in UDHR in Unicode, archived from the original on 27 July 2021:Sva ljudska bića rađaju se slobodna i jednaka u dostojanstvu i pravima. Ona su obdarena razumom i svešću i treba jedni prema drugima da postupaju u duhu bratstva.- All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Declension
Derived terms
References
- “svest”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024