Definitions
- 1.when
Кад ћеш доћи?
When will you come?
Не знам кад ћу стићи на састанак.
I don't know when I will arrive at the meeting.
Само што је пала ноћ, кад поче киша.
The night had just fallen, when the rain began.
- 2.if (= да)
Кад бих само имао мало више слободног времена...
If only I had a little more free time...
- 3.in miscellaneous constructs
кад(а) год
whenever
мало кад
rarely
кад-тад
sooner or later
- 4.ever (compare и̏кад)
Да ли си кад био у Бечу?
Have you ever been to Vienna?
- 5.sometimes (compare не̏кад)
како кад, кад како
sometimes this way, sometimes that way
Идем на посао кад трамвајем, кад аутобусом.
I go to work sometimes by tram, and sometimes by bus.
- 6.incense
Synonyms & related words
- ка̀дило
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kogъda, a compound of *ko (from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos) and *gъda, genitive singular of *godъ (compare Old Church Slavonic годъ (godŭ, “right time”)), thus originally meaning "at what time".
Forms
- ка̏дcanonical
- kȁdromanization
- ка̀даalternative
- кьтalternative • torlakian