Breakdown of Je li vozila danas?
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
danas
today
li
question particle
voziti
to drive / to ride (a snowboard, skis)
Questions & Answers about Je li vozila danas?
Where is the word for "she" in this sentence?
In Croatian, you usually drop the pronoun (like ona for "she") because the verb already tells you who is doing the action. Here, the action word vozila ends in -la, which is the specific ending for a female subject in the past tense.
How do we know this is a question and not a statement?
The words je li at the beginning tell us this is a yes/no question. Je is the helping verb, and li is a tiny question word we add right next to it to turn a statement into a question.
Wait, doesn't je mean "is"? Why does the English translation say "Did she drive"?
Yes, je translates to "is". But to make the past tense in Croatian, you always use the present tense of "to be" (like je) together with the past action word (vozila). English uses "did" to ask past tense questions, but Croatian is literally asking "Is (she) driven?".
If a man was driving, how would this sentence change?
You would change the ending of the main action word to the masculine form. Vozila ends in -la for females, but the masculine past tense ending is -o. So, the question would become Je li vozio danas? (Did he drive today?).
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