Word
Kupit ću šezdeset grama kave.
Meaning
I will buy sixty grams of coffee.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Kupit ću šezdeset grama kave.
kava
coffee
kupiti
to buy (perfective)
ću
will (ću, ćeš, će, ćemo, ćete, će)
gram
gram
Questions & Answers about Kupit ću šezdeset grama kave.
How do we get šezdeset (sixty) from the number six (šest)?
To make the tens in Croatian, you usually add deset (ten) to the base number. When combining šest (six) and deset, the letter combination st-d is hard to pronounce, so the st changes to z, creating šezdeset.
Why is it grama instead of just gram?
In Croatian, numbers from five onwards (like šezdeset) require the noun that follows them to be in the genitive plural case. The genitive plural of the masculine noun gram is grama.
Why is coffee (kava) written here as kave?
It is in the genitive case, which is often used to show quantity or mean of something. Just like we say grams of coffee in English, Croatian uses the genitive singular kave to express of coffee.
Why does the verb kupiti (to buy) lose its final i in Kupit ću?
When forming the future tense, if the helping verb (ću) comes directly after an infinitive ending in -ti, you must drop the final i from that infinitive. If you put the helping verb first, it keeps the i, like this: Ja ću kupiti.