Days of the Week
In Croatian, days of the week are not capitalized unless they appear at the beginning of a sentence. They fall into two grammatical genders:
- Masculine: ponedjeljak (Monday), utorak (Tuesday), četvrtak (Thursday), petak (Friday)
- Feminine: srijeda (Wednesday), subota (Saturday), nedjelja (Sunday)
| Monday | ponedjeljak |
Saying "On a Day" (u + Accusative)
To express that an event happens on a certain day, use the preposition u followed by the day of the week in the accusative case. The word's ending will depend on its gender.
For the masculine days, because they are inanimate nouns ending in a consonant, their accusative form is exactly the same as their base (nominative) form. You simply place u in front of the base word (e.g., u ponedjeljak, u utorak).
| He is going to work on Monday. | U ponedjeljak ide na posao. |
| We have a difficult exam on Thursday. | U četvrtak imamo težak ispit. |
| We are drinking beer on Friday. | U petak pijemo pivo. |
For the feminine days, which end in -a, you must change that final -a to an -u to form the accusative case. Thus, srijeda becomes u srijedu, subota becomes u subotu, and nedjelja becomes u nedjelju.
| She is traveling to America on Wednesday. | U srijedu putuje u Ameriku. |
| I am resting at home on Saturday. | U subotu se odmaram doma. |
| We sleep long on Sunday. | U nedjelju dugo spavamo. |
Time expressions are quite flexible in Croatian word order. While they often appear at the beginning of a sentence to set the context, you can easily place them at the end of the sentence as well.
| We are going to the cinema on Saturday. | Idemo u kino u subotu. |
| I have a meeting on Friday. | Imam sastanak u petak. |