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Ovo je sok od svježeg voća.

Ovo je sok od svježeg voća.
This is juice from fresh fruit.
From Lesson 69:Adjective agreement in the genitive singular (-og, -e)·Croatian

Questions & Answers about Ovo je sok od svježeg voća.

Why does the adjective svježeg end in -eg instead of the standard -og?
In the genitive singular, masculine and neuter adjectives usually end in -og (like dobrog). But there is a spelling rule in Croatian: if the adjective ends in a soft sound (like č, ć, š, ž, j, lj, or nj), the ending changes to -eg. Because the base word is svjež (fresh), it becomes svježeg.
Why are the words svježeg voća in the genitive case?
They follow the preposition od (from/of), which always forces the following noun and its adjectives into the genitive case.
What gender is the word voća, and what is its dictionary form?
The dictionary form (the nominative case) is voće, which is a neuter noun. To make it genitive, neuter nouns drop their final -e or -o and add -a, making it voća. The adjective svježeg matches this neuter gender.
The word sok (juice) is masculine. Why do we use the neuter word ovo (this) at the start of the sentence?
When you introduce something using the structure This is... (ovo je...), you always use the default neuter form ovo, no matter what gender the noun has. You only need to match genders if you are using the word this directly next to a noun as an adjective, like in ovaj sok (this juice).

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