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Croatian

### The Basics of Fishing

To describe your new outdoor hobby, you will need the verb **pecati** (to fish).

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Of course, you cannot fish without the right equipment. The word for a hook is the feminine noun **udica**.

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You will also need bait, which is the masculine noun **mamac**. When you want to say you are doing something "with" an object, you use the preposition **s** (or **sa**) followed by the instrumental case. For masculine nouns ending in **-c**, the instrumental ending is **-em**, making it **s mamcem**.

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### Making a Catch

When your fishing trip is successful, you will bring home a catch, which is the masculine noun **ulov**.

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The related verb is **uloviti** (to catch). In Croatian, there is a difference between the ongoing process of fishing and the completed action of actually catching a fish. You use **pecati** for the activity itself, but **uloviti** for a successful, completed result.

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### Essential Gear

Let's look at a few more tools you will use by the water. The word for fishing line is the feminine noun **struna**.

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You attach a bobber, the masculine noun **plovak**, to see when a fish bites.

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To get your line into the water, you need the verb **zabaciti** (to cast).

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You also use a reel, the feminine noun **rola**, to manage your line.

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### The Prize

One of the most popular river fish you might catch is the trout, known as the feminine noun **pastrva**.

Like other feminine nouns ending in **-a**, it changes its ending to **-u** when it becomes the direct object of a sentence (the accusative case). So, if you order or catch a trout, it becomes **pastrvu**.

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Recreational Fishing

adjective

adverb

conjunction

determiner

interjection

noun

numeral

particle

prep

preposition

pronoun

sentence

verb

Singular pronouns and to be (sam, si, je)

Noun genders (-Ø, -a, -o/-e)

Demonstrative pronouns (ovaj, ova, ovo)

Plural pronouns and to be (smo, ste, su)

Masculine plural nouns (-i)

Feminine plural nouns (-e)

Neuter plural nouns (-a)

Full verb to be (jesam, jesi)

Negative verb to be (nisam, nisi)

Yes/no questions (je li)

Wh- questions (tko, gdje)

Formal vs informal address (ti vs Vi)

Regular present tense (-ati)

Regular present tense (-iti)

Regular present tense (-jeti)

Verb negation (ne)

The verb to have (imati / nemati)

Inanimate direct objects

Feminine direct objects (-u)

Plural direct objects (-e, -a)

Accusative pronouns (me, te, ga, ju)

Adjective agreement

Plural adjectives

Accusative adjectives

Numbers 1 to 10 (jedan, dva, tri)

The locative case (-u)

Feminine locative (-i)

The verb to go (ići)

Destination (u, na)

The genitive case (-a)

Accusative pronouns (nas, vas, ga, ih)

Animate masculine accusative (-a)

Adjective agreement for animate masculine (-og, -eg)

The verb can (moći)

The verb must (morati)

The verb to want (htjeti, hoću)

The future tense (ću/ćeš + infinitive)

The past tense: l-participle (radio, radila)

Past tense word order (Prvo sam radio...)

Past tense with plural subjects (-li, -le, -la)

Feminine genitive singular (-e)

Possession and origin (od, iz)

Negative existence (nema)

Numbers 2, 3, and 4

Genitive plural (-a)

Numbers 11 to 20

Past tense negation (nisam)

Past tense questions (jeste li)

Dative singular

Dative pronouns (ti, mu, joj)

Past tense negation (nisam, nisi...)

Double object pronouns (mu ga, ti ju...)

Reflexive verbs (se)

Reflexive clitic word order

Commands and requests (radi, radite)

Plural demonstratives (ovi, ove, ova)

Possessive determiners (moj, naš, njegov)

Greetings (Dobar dan, doviđenja)

The body: Boli me glava

Directions (lijevo, desno, ravno)

There is, there are (ima)

Politeness (molim vas, hvala lijepa)

How you feel (Sviđa mi se)

Counting by tens to 100 (trideset, četrdeset...)

Quantifiers with the genitive case (malo, puno...)

Adjective agreement in the genitive singular (-og, -e)

Adjective agreement in the genitive plural (-ih)

Genitive prepositions (kod, do, bez...)

Asking what kind and which (kakav, koji)

Possessive determiners (njegov, njezin...)

Possessives in the accusative case

The reflexive possessive (svoj)

Indefinite pronouns (netko, nešto, neki)

Negative pronouns (nitko, ništa)

The verb to need (trebati)

Reciprocal verbs (se)

Introduction to verbal aspect

Perfective verbs with prefixes

Perfective verbs with stem changes

Irregular perfective verbs

Aspect in the past tense

Aspect in the future tense

Vehicular motion (voziti se, putovati)

Arrival and departure ('doći', 'otići')

Entering and exiting ('ući', 'izaći')

Singular accompaniment ('s', 'sa')

Question	Answer
to fish	pecati
My grandfather and I like to fish on the lake.	Moj djed i ja volimo pecati na jezeru.
Don't fish here, the river is dangerous.	Nemoj pecati ovdje, rijeka je opasna.
hook	udica
Careful, this hook is sharp.	Pazi, ova udica je oštra.
bait	mamac
The hook with bait must fall into the water.	Udica s mamcem mora pasti u vodu.
Which bait is the best for this fish?	Koji mamac je najbolji za ovu ribu?
The man with the bait is going to the coast.	Čovjek s mamcem ide na obalu.
catch	ulov
Your catch today is really impressive.	Tvoj današnji ulov je stvarno impresivan.
Don't lose that wonderful catch!	Nemoj izgubiti taj divan ulov!
to catch	uloviti
As soon as I catch a fish, we are going home.	Čim ulovim ribu, idemo doma.
Can we catch something big tonight?	Možemo li večeras uloviti nešto veliko?
fishing line	struna
This thin fishing line can break.	Ova tanka struna može puknuti.
Don't pull hard, the fishing line will break.	Nemoj jako vući, struna će puknuti.
bobber	plovak
Look at the bobber while you sit by the lake.	Gledaj plovak dok sjediš kraj jezera.
As soon as the bobber goes down, you must pull.	Čim plovak krene dolje, moraš vući.
to cast	zabaciti
Don't cast near the bushes.	Nemojte zabaciti blizu grmlja.
He can cast the hook very far.	On može jako daleko zabaciti udicu.
reel	rola
My new reel is very expensive.	Moja nova rola je vrlo skupa.
He was looking at the rod with a large reel.	Gledao je štap s velikom rolom.
trout	pastrva
A famous trout lives in this river.	U ovoj rijeci živi poznata pastrva.
I ordered trout with lemon for dinner.	Naručio sam pastrvu s limunom za večeru.