Hyphen
A hyphen (- or ‐) is a leaning punctuation mark (except where noted).
In compound words that would otherwise use the word in (and) between the parts, a hyphen is used:
- zeleno-moder pulover (a green and blue jumper)
- but 'zelenomoder pulover' if the colour is a mix of green and blue (thus also 'etnocentričen' (ethnocentric), not 'etno-centričen', since one cannot add an 'and' in between the words)
- slovensko-nemški slovar (a Slovene-German dictionary)
- angleško-francoski konflikt (an English-French conflict)
- črno-belo tiskanje (black-and-white printing)
A hyphen is also used as in the following examples:
- Janko Novak-Rovtar (as an equivalent to a dash; see above)
- 30-letnica (30th anniversary or a woman in her thirties)
- TV-oddaja (television programme)
- tri- in petdnevni tečaji (three and five day courses)
- avtonomija in -kracija (autonomy and autocracy)
- ATP, ATP-ja (inflexion of symbols and acronyms)
- le-to, le-tak, le-tako, ka-li
- Pri m-ju se ji vedno zatakne. (She always falters at m (in the alphabet).)
Hyphens are used non-syntactially in syllabification, when marking stems, suffixes, prefixes and similar (many examples at declensions above) and in prices (1000,- SIT (which is the same as 1000,0 SIT)).
The same character under the name of deljaj marks word division over two lines. At the end of a line, a word may be spelt only to the end of a certain syllable, followed by the left-leaning - or = character (sometimes, although not often, the character / is also used for this purpose), with the rest of the word following in the next line. If the last character in a line is a plus (+), a dash (–), a solidus (/), a times or division sign (·, :), an equal sign (=), a hyphen (-), or similar, the same character is repeated at the beginning of the next line.
- Prišli smo do polovice odstavka, ko je Marijino jec-
ljanje prešlo meje normale.
- We read through the first half of the paragraph when Marija's stammering exceeded the boundaries of normality.
- (17 + 15) + 3 =
= 17 + (15 + 3) =
= 35
Read more about this topic: Slovene Punctuation