Word
Tvoj brat ide na odmor.
Meaning
Your brother is going on vacation.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Tvoj brat ide na odmor.
brat
brother
tvoj
your (informal)
na
on, at / to, onto (with motion) / about (thinking about)
ići
to go
Questions & Answers about Tvoj brat ide na odmor.
Why do we use na here instead of u?
We use na with the accusative case to show a destination. While u is used for entering enclosed physical spaces (like a building), na is used for open spaces, events, and states or activities. A vacation (odmor) is an activity or state, so we use na, which conveniently matches the English phrase "on vacation".
I thought destinations need the accusative case. Why doesn't odmor change its ending?
Odmor actually is in the accusative case here! In Croatian, masculine nouns are split into living things (people or animals) and non-living things (objects or states). For non-living masculine nouns like odmor, the accusative form is exactly the same as the dictionary (nominative) form.
Why is it tvoj brat instead of tvoja brat?
Possessive words like "your" must match the gender of the noun they describe. Because brat (brother) is a masculine noun, we use the masculine form tvoj. If you were talking about a sister (sestra, which is feminine), you would use tvoja.
What dictionary verb does ide come from?