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### Spa Treatments and the Instrumental Case

When booking your wellness weekend, you will want to describe the specific therapies you want to try. To say you want a bath (**kupka**) or treatment (**tretman**) "with" a specific ingredient, you use the preposition **s** (or **sa**) followed by the instrumental case.

For example, if you want a bath with essential (**eteričan**) oils, *ulja* (oils) takes the instrumental plural ending to become *uljima*.

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This rule applies to all kinds of wellness services, whether you are getting a treatment with healing (**ljekovit**) mud or a scrub (**piling**) with sea salt.

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You also use **s** + the instrumental case to describe what someone is wearing, such as a cozy bathrobe (**ogrtač**).

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### Navigating the Spa: "Pored" and "Iza"

The Croatian word for a spa is **toplice**. This is a "pluralia tantum" noun, meaning it is grammatically always plural, much like the English word "scissors."

To describe where different facilities are located within or around the spa, you will often use prepositions like **pored** (next to) and **iza** (behind). Both of these prepositions require the noun that follows them to be in the genitive case. So, *toplice* becomes *toplica*.

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Similarly, to say the sauna (**sauna**) is behind the pool (*bazen*), the pool takes the genitive ending **-a** to become *bazena*.

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Let's look at one more example using the adjective for cosmetic or beauty (**kozmetički**).

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### Feeling Relaxed: Using "Kao da"

A great way to describe the deeply relaxing effects of your spa visit is the phrase **kao da**, which means "as if" or "like."

You can pair this conjunction with verbs like *izgledati* (to look) or *osjećati se* (to feel) to express your post-treatment bliss.

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### The Healing Power of Water

Finally, no wellness weekend is complete without experiencing the local waters. The adjective for thermal is **termalan**. 

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Spa and Wellness

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)

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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
bath	kupka
essential	eteričan
I want a warm bath with essential oils.	Želim toplu kupku s eteričnim uljima.
treatment	tretman
healing	ljekovit
They offer a treatment with healing mud here.	Ovdje nude tretman s ljekovitim blatom.
scrub	piling
I want to try that scrub with sea salt.	Želim probati onaj piling s morskom soli.
bathrobe	ogrtač
The girl with the white robe is waiting for a massage.	Djevojka s bijelim ogrtačem čeka masažu.
spa	toplice
Next to the spa is a large forest.	Pored toplica je velika šuma.
sauna	sauna
The sauna is behind the pool.	Sauna je iza bazena.
Your robe is behind the door.	Tvoj ogrtač je iza vrata.
cosmetic	kozmetički
The beauty salon is next to the main entrance.	Kozmetički salon je pored glavnog ulaza.
You look as if you go to the spa every week.	Izgledaš kao da svaki tjedan ideš u toplice.
I feel as if I am still in the sauna.	Osjećam se kao da sam još uvijek u sauni.
This bath smells as if you are in nature.	Ova kupka miriše kao da si u prirodi.
You look as if you need a beauty treatment.	Izgledaš kao da ti treba kozmetički tretman.
thermal	termalan
After the thermal bath, I was very relaxed.	Nakon termalne kupke, bio sam jako opušten.
Thermal water is very healing.	Termalna voda je vrlo ljekovita.
I like the smell of the essential oil.	Sviđa mi se miris eteričnog ulja.
I bought a good body scrub.	Kupila sam dobar piling za tijelo.
This treatment includes a face massage.	Ovaj tretman uključuje masažu lica.
I forgot to bring the robe to the pool.	Zaboravio sam ponijeti ogrtač na bazen.
nutrition, diet	prehrana
A healthy diet is important for the body.	Zdrava prehrana je važna za tijelo.
My diet is not healthy.	Moja prehrana nije zdrava.

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