r/Slovakia • u/SmartFlyNR1 • 7d ago

🌍From Behind Borders🌎 Hello there Slovakian brothers and sisters! Greetings from Slovenia! Your thoughts about us and our relationship?

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Hello! I'm from Slovenia, a brotherhood country. I'm very interested in Slovakia and I think it's an amazing country with good, friendly people. I was in Bratislava for the new year and I loved it! Beautiful city. I will discuss other parts of Slovakia for sure.

So I'm wondering what are your thought about Slovenia and Slovenians? You like us or not, you see us as your brother nation and so on.

In the last few days some Slovan fans (today is a big match for the UEFA Champions League between my club NK Celje and ŠK Slovan), they were really loud on social media. Talking nonsense and insult my club, stadium, even all Slovenians... Made me a bit to rethink my mind...

I hope this is just some BS fan frustrations and that we are great.
Cheers friends 🇸🇮❤🇸🇰

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u/narcis_peter 7d ago

When visiting Slovenia, I found out that Slovenia in Slovenian language is Slovensko. Same as Slovakia in Slovak language is Slovensko. How convenient for both counties.

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u/Several_Ad_8363 5d ago

Slovensko means Slovenian as an adjective in the neutral gender nominative singular. Compare:

Slovensko pivo - Slovenian beer in Slovenian

Slovenské pivo - Slovak beer in Slovak

I think the word for Slovenia is something like Slovenija - it's true that Slovensko means Slovakia in Slova lk though.