Definitions
- 1.when
Kad ćeš doći?
When will you come?
Ne znam kad ću stići na sastanak.
I don't know when I will arrive at the meeting.
Vjetar je prestao puhati baš kad je počelo kišiti.
The wind stopped blowing just when it began raining.
- 2.if, if only (= da)
Kad bih samo imao malo više slobodnog vremena.
If only I had a little more free time.
- 3.used in miscellaneous phrases relating to time
kad god
whenever
malo kad
rarely
kad-tad
sooner or later
- 4.informalever
Jesi li kad bio u Beču?
Have you ever been to Vienna?
- 5.informalsometimes
Idem na posao kad tramvajem, kad autobusom.
I go to work sometimes by tram, and sometimes by bus.
- 6.incense
Synonyms & related words
Synonyms
- gda
- kàdilo
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
- kȁdcanonical
- ка̏дcyrillic
- kàdaalternative
- kătalternative • torlakian