Breakdown of Vidjet ću nekoliko škola u gradu.
grad
city
škola
school
vidjeti
to see
u
in, into
ću
will (ću, ćeš, će, ćemo, ćete, će)
nekoliko
several
Questions & Answers about Vidjet ću nekoliko škola u gradu.
Why does the word for "schools" (škola) look exactly like the singular word for "school"?
This is the genitive plural! For most feminine nouns ending in -a, like škola, the genitive plural also ends in -a. In spoken Croatian, the genitive plural has a longer, stretched-out "a" sound at the end to help tell them apart, but in writing, they look identical. You have to rely on context clues like nekoliko (several) to know it is plural.
Why do we use the genitive case for škola here instead of the accusative object case?
The word nekoliko (several or a few) is a quantity word. In Croatian, words that express a quantity (like malo, puno, koliko, and numbers 5 and up) force the noun that follows them into the genitive case. Because "several" implies more than one, we use the genitive plural.
Why is the verb vidjet missing the "i" at the end?
To form the future tense, Croatian uses the infinitive verb plus a short helper verb (here, ću). When this helper verb comes directly after an infinitive that ends in -ti (like vidjeti), we drop the final -i in both writing and speaking. So vidjeti ću becomes vidjet ću.
Why is it u gradu instead of u grad?
The preposition u (in/into) takes the locative case when it describes a fixed location (seeing schools "in the city"), which is why grad adds an -u to become gradu. If you were instead talking about motion towards a destination (like traveling "into the city"), you would use the accusative case (u grad).
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