Breakdown of Tražimo dobrog zaposlenika.
dobar
good
tražiti
to look for / to demand, request
zaposlenik
employee
Questions & Answers about Tražimo dobrog zaposlenika.
Why is the adjective dobrog used instead of the dictionary form dobar?
Because zaposlenika (employee) is a masculine noun referring to a living person, and it is the direct object of the sentence (what we are looking for). When describing living masculine objects, Croatian adjectives take the accusative ending -og (or -eg). Notice that dobar also drops its extra 'a' when the ending is added, becoming dobrog.
Why does the noun zaposlenik end with an -a here?
Just like the adjective, masculine nouns that represent living beings (animate nouns) change their ending when they are the direct object of an action. They take an -a at the end. So, the base word zaposlenik becomes zaposlenika.
Where is the word for 'for' in the Croatian sentence?
There isn't one! The Croatian verb tražiti (used here as tražimo) translates directly to 'to look for' or 'to seek'. You do not need an extra preposition like you do in English; you just put the object you are searching for right after the verb.
Why isn't the word for 'we' (mi) included in the sentence?
In Croatian, the ending of the verb already tells you exactly who is doing the action. The -mo ending on tražimo means 'we are looking'. Because of this, it is very common to drop the pronoun mi unless you want to strongly emphasize that we are looking, as opposed to someone else.
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