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konkubina

конкубина

konkubína · /konkubǐːna/ · fem.

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NOUN
  1. dated (legal usage) live-in partner; common-law wife
    Po starom zakonu konkubina nije imala pravo na nasledstvo. — Under the old law a common-law wife had no right to inheritance.
  2. (historical) concubine; kept woman
    Sultan je imao mnogo konkubina. — The sultan had many concubines.

Neutral in historical contexts; applied to a present-day partner it sounds disparaging. The neutral term for a cohabiting partner is vanbračna supruga / vanbračna partnerka.

Declension, fem.
singularplural
Nom.konkubinakonkubine
Gen.konkubinekonkubina
Dat.konkubinikonkubinama
Acc.konkubinukonkubine
Voc.konkubinokonkubine
Ins.konkubinomkonkubinama
Loc.konkubinikonkubinama
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