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Macedonian
Pronunciation
Noun
грош • (groš) m
- grosz, groschen
- penny, cent, farthing, coin
Declension
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish grosz, from German Groschen, from Medieval Latin denarius grossus.
Pronunciation
Noun
грош • (groš) m inan (genitive гро́ша, nominative plural гро́ши, genitive plural гро́шей, relational adjective грошево́й) (currency)
грош • (groš) m inan (genitive гроша́, nominative plural гроши́, genitive plural гроше́й, relational adjective грошо́вый) (idiomatic)
- (dated) half-kopeck coin
- grosz
- groschen
- (figuratively) penny, cent, farthing, small amount of money, peanuts (pl: гроши́ (groší))
- без гроша́ ― bez grošá ― penniless, broke
- ни гроша́ ― ni grošá ― not a stiver / farthing
Usage notes
- In the numismatic sense the stem is stressed, in the idiomatic sense the ending is stressed.
Declension
currency
idiomatic
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
- гро́шы m pl (hróšy, “money”) (Belarusian)
- гро́ші m pl (hróši, “money”) (Ukrainian)
Ukrainian
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish grosz, from German Groschen, from Medieval Latin denarius grossus. Doublet of гріш (hriš).
Pronunciation
Noun
грош • (hroš) m inan (genitive гро́ша, nominative plural гро́ші, genitive plural гро́шів)
- grosz (A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Polish zloty.)
- (historical) groschen (former unit of currency, worth 1⁄100 of an Austrian schilling)
Declension
Declension of грош (inan semisoft masc-form accent-a)
Further reading
- Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2012), “грош”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 3 (відстава́ння – ґура́льня), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN