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domovína native country; native land; fatherland; mother country; homeland; native soil; home

v domovíni at home
druga domovína country of adoption
hrepenenje po domovíni homesickness, nostalgia
hrepeneti po domovíni to be homesick
zapustiti domovíno to leave one's country, arhaično to expatriate oneself

grád (fevdalen, utrjen) castle; (kraljev, knežji) palace; castle; (graščina) manor; (podeželski) country seat

grádovi na reki Loire Loire-valley chateaus (ali chateaux), chateaus on the Loire
Versajski grád the palace of Versailles
zidanje grádov v oblake (figurativno) wishful thinking; building (of) castles in the air
obljubljati komu zlate grádove to promise someone the earth
sesuti se kot grád iz kart to collapse like a house of cards
zidati grádove v oblake to build castles in the air (ali in Spain)
ne zidaj grádov v oblake! don't count your chickens before they're hatched!, arhaično sell not the bear's skin before you have caught the bear

graščína manor, manor house; country seat; mansion, mansion house

inozémstvo foreign countries pl, foreign country

v inozémstvu abroad
iz inozémstva from abroad
novice iz inozémstva news from abroad
iti v inozémstvo to go abroad
potovati v inozémstvu to travel in foreign countries (ali foreign parts)

kmetíca countrywoman, peasant woman; country girl

malomeščán provincial; inhabitant of a small town; person of countrified manners (ali appearance, views); country cousin; figurativno narrow-minded townsman, bourgeois, philistine; ZDA (Mr.) Babbitt, John Citizen; lowbrow

nižína lowland; low country

okupátor occupier; enemy who occupies a country

optírati to opt to be a citizen of a chosen country

po osvoboditvi je optiral za Slovenijo after liberation he opted for Slovenia

prekmórec inhabitant of an overseas country

provínca province; countryside; country outside the capital

provinciálec provincial; inhabitant of a province; country cousin

raván plain, plateau; table, tableland; level country

tujína foreign country, foreign parts pl

v tujíni abroad
biti v tujíni to be abroad
iti v tujíno to go abroad
živeti v tujíni to live abroad

višávje highland; high country

Škotsko višávje the Highlands pl

vrtáča geologija sinkhole; funnel-shaped hole occurring in limestone country (in the Karst region)

vselíti se to move in; to immigrate, to settle in a new country; to colonize

zaméjstvo foreign countries pl, foreign country

v zaméjstvu abroad
odšel je v zaméjstvo he went abroad
živeti v zaméjstvu to live abroad

adoption [ədɔ́pšən] samostalnik
prisvojitev; posvojitev, adopcija; usvojitev, privzem; izposojenka (beseda), tujka; posinovljenje, pohčerjenje

brother by adoption po pol brat
country of adoption nova domovina

adoptíven adoptive

adoptívna (nova) domovina country of adoption
adoptíven otrok adoptive child