Questions & Answers about Ustani i odgovori.
Who is being told to stand up and answer here, one person or multiple people?
Just one person. Both ustani and odgovori end in -i, which is the standard ending for an informal 'you' (singular) command. If you were commanding a group of people, or speaking formally to one person, you would add -te to the end, making them ustanite and odgovorite.
How do we build the command form ustani?
The dictionary form is ustati (to stand up). To form the command, we usually look at the 'they' form in the present tense, which is ustanu (they stand up). We drop the final -u to get the stem ustan-, and then add -i to create the singular command ustani.
odgovori looks exactly like the word for 'he/she answers'. How can I tell it is a command here?
Context is your best clue! Because it is paired directly with the command ustani using i (and), and there is no subject like 'he' or 'she' in the sentence, it is clear that odgovori is also a command. For many verbs in Croatian, the singular command and the 'he/she/it' present tense form happen to be spelled exactly the same way.
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