Breakdown of Jutros je doručkovao.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
jutros
this morning
doručkovati
to have breakfast
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Questions & Answers about Jutros je doručkovao.
Where is the word for 'he' in this sentence?
Croatian often leaves out the subject pronoun, which would be on for 'he', because the verb itself tells us who is acting. Here, the ending of the past tense verb doručkovao tells us it was a single male person, so 'he' is automatically understood.
Why does the verb doručkovao end in -o if this lesson is about the 'l-participle'?
In the masculine singular form of the past tense, the expected -l at the end of the word changed to an -o over time. So instead of ending in -l, the masculine form ends in -o. For a female, the -l stays, making it doručkovala.
How would we change this sentence to say 'She had breakfast this morning'?
You would say Jutros je doručkovala. We simply change the masculine ending -o to the feminine ending -la to make the verb match the female subject.
Why use jutros here instead of ujutro?
The word ujutro means 'in the morning' in a general, everyday sense, like for a routine. The word jutros specifically means 'this morning'. Since the sentence describes a specific past event that happened today, jutros is the exact word you need.