Гродна
Belarusian
Alternative forms
- Hrodna — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet), 2000–2023 Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɣrodna]
Proper noun
Гро́дна • (Hródna) n inan (genitive Гро́дна, uncountable, relational adjective гро́дзенскі)
- Grodno, Hrodna (the capital city of the Grodno region, Belarus)
- 1916, “Hrodnia”, in Vacłaŭ Łastoŭski, editor, Rodnyje zierniaty, Wilno: Homan, page 185:
- Hrodnia lažyć na prawym bierazi Niomana i pa abodwych bierahoch Haradničanki.
- Hrodna is located on the right bank of the Neman River and on both banks of the Haradničanka River.
- 1945, Міхась Клімковіч, “Георгій Скарына”, in Драматычныя паэмы, Minsk: ДВБ, published 1947, page 67:
- Сцяў гродзенскага ваяводу? Ты не чуў / Як прозвішча яго? Мой бацька быў у Гродні…
- Scjaŭ hródzjenskaha vajavódu? Ty nje čuŭ / Jak prózvišča jahó? Moj bacʹka byŭ u Hródni…
- Has the voivode of Hrodna been really beheaded? Have you heard what his surname was? My father was in Hrodna…
- Grodno, Hrodna (a region of Belarus)
Declension
Declension of Гро́дна (inan sg-only hard neut-form accent-a)
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Гро́дна Hródna |
| genitive | Гро́дна Hródna |
| dative | Гро́дну Hródnu |
| accusative | Гро́дна Hródna |
| instrumental | Гро́днам Hródnam |
| locative | Гро́дне Hródnje |
Derived terms
- Гро́дзеншчына f (Hródzjenščyna)
- гро́дзенскі m (hródzjenski)
References
- “Гродна” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
- «Гродна» alias “Hrodna”Łacinka / UNGEGN in Valancina Piatroŭna Lemciuhova, editor (2004), Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Гродзенская вобласць [The names of the settlements of the Republic of Belarus: Hrodna Oblast] (in Belarusian), Мінск [Minsk]: Тэхналогія [Texnalóhija], →ISBN, page 161