Breakdown of Jeste li uživali na odmoru?
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
li
question particle
na
on, at / to, onto (with motion) / about (thinking about)
odmor
vacation (m) / rest
Questions & Answers about Jeste li uživali na odmoru?
How does the "did you" question structure work here with Jeste li?
To ask a yes/no question in the past tense, Croatian uses a helper verb (a form of "to be") plus the short question word li, followed by the main past tense verb. Unlike English which uses "did", Croatian uses Jeste (the plural or formal "you" form of "to be"). So the literal structure is essentially "Are you enjoyed?".
Why does the past tense verb uživali end with -i?
The -i ending shows that this past tense verb is plural. We use it when speaking to a group of people, or when using the polite, formal "you" with one person. If you were asking a single friend informally, the whole phrase would change: Jesi li uživao? for a male, and Jesi li uživala? for a female.
Why is there a -u at the end of odmoru?
The dictionary form of the word for vacation is odmor. Because you are talking about being at a location or in a state ("on vacation"), you use the preposition na combined with the locative case. For most masculine nouns like odmor, the locative case adds a -u to the end of the word.
Can I use Da li to ask this question instead?