Questions & Answers about Šef danas zove dragog zaposlenika.
Why does the adjective drag (dear) have the ending -og here?
This is exactly what this lesson is about! The employee is the direct object of the verb, meaning we need the accusative case. Since an employee is a living, masculine being (animate), any adjective describing him gets the special -og (or -eg) ending. So, drag becomes dragog.
Why does the noun zaposlenik (employee) end in -a?
Just like the adjective, masculine nouns for living beings take an -a ending in the accusative case. That's why zaposlenik changes to zaposlenika. If the boss were calling for an inanimate object (like a taxi), the noun and adjective wouldn't add these extra endings!
The dictionary form for "to call" is zvati. Why is it spelled zove here?
Many Croatian verbs have a present tense stem that looks different from their infinitive (dictionary) form. For zvati, the stem changes to zov- before adding the usual present tense endings. For "he/she/it", the ending is -e, giving us zove.
Could danas (today) go somewhere else in the sentence?