Word
Većina uspješnih članova je ovdje.
Meaning
The majority of successful members is here.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Većina uspješnih članova je ovdje.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
ovdje
here
većina
majority
član
member
Questions & Answers about Većina uspješnih članova je ovdje.
Why does the adjective end in -ih in "uspješnih"?
This is the genitive plural ending. In Croatian, when you talk about a "majority of" something, the things you are describing go into the genitive case. For adjectives describing plural nouns of any gender, the genitive ending is always -ih.
How is the word "članova" formed here?
The dictionary form is član (member). Because it is a short (one-syllable) masculine word, it gets the extra -ov- inserted in the plural. The final -a is the standard genitive plural ending for nouns, so it becomes članova (of members).
What exactly triggers the genitive case for "uspješnih članova" in this sentence?
The word većina (majority). Whenever you use nouns that express a quantity or a part of a whole (like "majority of," "half of," or words like "a lot" and "a little"), the noun and its adjectives that follow must be in the genitive case.
Why is the verb "je" (is) singular when we are talking about multiple members?
The verb always agrees with the main subject of the sentence. Here, the grammatical subject is većina (majority), which is a singular feminine noun. So, we use the singular verb je, even though the phrase refers to a plural group of members.