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(fence, plant support) stake; paleVezali smo paradajz za kolce. — We tied the tomatoes to stakes.Zabio je kolac u zemlju pored ograde. — He drove a stake into the ground by the fence.
It has two sets of inflected forms, both in normal use: genitive singular kolca and koca, instrumental singular kolcem and kocem, plural kolci and kočevi; in everyday speech the forms keeping the full stem — kolca, kolcem, kolci — are the more common.
Synonyms:
pritka
kočić
Expressions
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nabiti na kolac — to impaleTurci su pobunjenike nabijali na kolac. — The Ottomans impaled the rebels.
Declension, masc.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Nom. | kolac | kolci |
| Gen. | kolca | kolaca |
| Dat. | kolcu | kolcima |
| Acc. | kolac | kolce |
| Voc. | kolče | kolci |
| Ins. | kolcem | kolcima |
| Loc. | kolcu | kolcima |
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Updated 29 October 2026