vremenska

Vremenska is a feminine singular adjective used in several South Slavic languages, including Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. It is formed from the noun for time or weather and is used to express a relation to time or to weather, depending on the surrounding noun.

The term commonly appears in compound phrases, where it modifies feminine nouns. In everyday usage, the most familiar example is vremenska prognoza, meaning weather forecast. It is also used in temporal contexts with other feminine nouns, such as vremenska zona (time zone) and vremenska razlika (time difference). The meaning is determined by the head noun it accompanies.

Etymologically, vremenska derives from the root related to vreme or vrijeme, terms for time or weather in these languages. As an adjective, it agrees in gender, number, and case with the noun it modifies, taking a feminine form when paired with feminine nouns like prognoza, zona, or razlika.

In standard writing, vremenska is used across Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin with similar syntax and meaning, though exact phrasing can vary by locale. The word is typically written in the Latin alphabet; Cyrillic spellings exist in languages that use Cyrillic scripts, corresponding to the same morphological form.

See also: vreme/vrijeme (time or weather), vremenski (relating to time), weather forecast, time zone.