How do you use Slovenes in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Slovenes meaning
plural of Slovene
Using Slovenes
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Slovene
- In the example corpus, slovenes often appears in combinations such as: and slovenes, the slovenes, of slovenes.
Context around Slovenes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Slovenes
- In this selection, "slovenes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, serbs, 000, especially, gradually, supported and soon stand out and add context to how "slovenes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include croats and slovenes and 46 000 slovenes were expelled. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "slovenes" sits close to words such as aaj, aal and aalto, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with slovenes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Some Slovenes collaborated with the occupying powers. (7 words)
The Slovenes are among the professors at the Institute for Jazz in Graz. (13 words)
Several tens of thousands of Slovenes left Slovenia immediately after the war in fear of Communist persecution. (17 words)
In October 1920, the majority of the population of southern Carinthia voted to remain in Austria, and only a small portion of the province (around Dravograd and Guštanj ) was awarded to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. (38 words)
The coat-of-arms of Celje was selected for the national arms immediately after World War I in 1918, when Slovenia together with Croatia and Serbia formed the original Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia ). (37 words)
A symposium on the relation of Graz and the Slovenes was held in Graz in 2010, at the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the first and oldest chair of Slovene. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
When Yugoslavia began to violently be carved into competing ethno-states, there remained many people, including Serbs, Croats, Muslims, and Slovenes, who refused to go along with the new sectarian reality.
After the First World War, the Kingdom of Serbia joined the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
After the war, the transport was organised by the Post Directorate of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, gradually joined by private operators.
As the movement began to gain popularity, the Partisans gained strength from Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Slovenes, and Macedonians who believed in a unified, but federal, Yugoslav state.
A symposium on the relation of Graz and the Slovenes was held in Graz in 2010, at the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the first and oldest chair of Slovene.
By 1910, around a third of the city population was Slovene, and the number of Slovenes in Trieste was higher than in Ljubljana.
Despite their political and institutional fragmentation and lack of proper political representation, the Slovenes were able to establish a functioning national infrastructure.
Hundreds of thousands of Slovenes from Gorizia and Gradisca were resettled in refugee camps in Italy and Austria.
In addition, some 46,000 Slovenes were expelled to Germany, including children who were separated from their parents and allocated to German families.
In October 1920, the majority of the population of southern Carinthia voted to remain in Austria, and only a small portion of the province (around Dravograd and Guštanj ) was awarded to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
In turn, the Slovenes, supported by Croats, sought to reform Yugoslavia by devolving even more power to republics, but were voted down.
Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–41) main Following World War I, Bosnia was incorporated into the South Slav kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (soon renamed Yugoslavia).
Members were also active in culture and politics, striving for greater integration of the Slovenes from different Crown lands of Austria–Hungary and for their cultural, political, and economic independence.
Several tens of thousands of Slovenes left Slovenia immediately after the war in fear of Communist persecution.
Some Slovenes collaborated with the occupying powers.
The coat-of-arms of Celje was selected for the national arms immediately after World War I in 1918, when Slovenia together with Croatia and Serbia formed the original Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia ).
The political disputes around economic measures was echoed in the public sentiment, as many Slovenes felt they were being economically exploited, having to sustain an expensive and inefficient federal administration.
The Slovenes are among the professors at the Institute for Jazz in Graz.
The Slovenians mostly wanted to be with Germany and Austria, but merged that December with the Kingdom of Serbia into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929).
This behaviour of aggression towards Yugoslavia and South Slavs was pursued by Italian Fascists with their persecution of South Slavs – especially Slovenes and Croats.
Common combinations with slovenes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: