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slawisch
Slavic
Relating to the group of Slavic peoples, their languages, or their culture.
example
Tschechisch gehört zu den westslawischen Sprachen.
Czech belongs to the West Slavic languages.
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Meanings
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Lowercase spelling
Adjectives derived from peoples or geographic regions and ending in '-isch' are written with a lowercase letter in German. This also applies to 'slawisch' (Slavic), as long as it is not part of a proper name.
EXAMPLE
Sie interessiert sich sehr für die slawische Kultur.
She is very interested in Slavic culture.
Word family
The adjective 'slawisch' (Slavic) belongs to a word family. The person is 'der Slawe' (the Slav, male) or 'die Slawin' (the Slav, female), and the related academic field is called 'die Slawistik' (Slavic studies).
EXAMPLE
An dieser Universität kann man Slawistik studieren.
You can study Slavic studies at this university.
Typical collocations
'Slawisch' (Slavic) is most commonly used in combination with nouns like 'Sprachen' (languages), 'Länder' (countries), 'Kultur' (culture), or 'Einflüsse' (influences).
EXAMPLE
Polnisch und Russisch sind beides slawische Sprachen.
Polish and Russian are both Slavic languages.
Compare with
slawisch vs russisch
Russian
'russisch' and 'slawisch' are connected because Russian belongs to the Slavic languages. Even so, the words do not mean the same thing. 'russisch' means something from Russia or the Russian language. 'slawisch' is much broader and means a whole group of peoples, languages, and cultures, which also includes Polish, Czech, or Serbian. Learners may confuse the words because Russian is an example of something Slavic. If you only mean Russia, use 'russisch'. If you mean the larger language or cultural group, use 'slawisch'.
slawisch
Polnisch und Russisch gehören beide zu den slawischen Sprachen.
Polish and Russian both belong to the Slavic languages.
russisch
Nach dem Unterricht hat ihr Kollege noch einen russischen Text gelesen.
After class, her colleague read a Russian text.
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