пакао

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьkъlъ, from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“pitch”). Cognate with Bulgarian пъкъл (pǎkǎl), Slovene pekel, Slovak peklo. Akin to Latin pix (“pitch, tar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǎkao/
• Hyphenation: па‧ка‧о

Noun

па̀као m (Latin spelling pàkao)

1. hell

   Добродошли у пакао, господо.

   Welcome to hell, gentlemen.

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	па̀као	пакли
genitive	пакла	пака́ла̄
dative	паклу	паклима
accusative	пакао	пакле
vocative	пакле	пакли
locative	паклу	паклима
instrumental	паклом	паклима

Declension of пакао

References

• “пакао”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025