Breakdown of Tvoj sat je od zlata.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
sat
watch / clock
tvoj
your (informal)
od
from
zlato
gold
Questions & Answers about Tvoj sat je od zlata.
Why do we use the preposition od here to say "made of"?
In Croatian, to say what something is physically made of, you use the preposition od (which means "from" or "of") followed by the material. You can think of it literally as saying "Your watch is from gold."
Why is the word for gold zlata instead of zlato?
The preposition od always forces the noun that follows it into the Genitive case. The dictionary form of gold is zlato, which is a neuter noun. In the Genitive case, neuter nouns ending in -o change their ending to -a, making it zlata.
Doesn't the word sat usually mean "hour"?
Yes, sat can mean "hour", but it is also the everyday word for a "watch" or a "clock". You have to tell which one it means from the context. Since hours aren't made of gold, it definitely means "watch" here!
Why do we use Tvoj and not Tvoja or Tvoje?
Tvoj is a possessive pronoun meaning "your". Because it acts like an adjective, its ending must match the gender of the noun it belongs to. The noun sat is masculine, so we use the basic masculine form Tvoj without any extra feminine or neuter endings.
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