Breakdown of Tvoj unuk se odmara na balkonu.
tvoj
your (informal)
na
on, at / to, onto (with motion) / about (thinking about)
odmarati se
to rest
balkon
balcony
unuk
grandson
Questions & Answers about Tvoj unuk se odmara na balkonu.
Why is the word for "your" Tvoj instead of Tvoja or Tvoje here?
Possessive words like "your" have to match the gender of the noun they belong to. Because unuk (grandson) is a masculine noun in the nominative (subject) case, you use the masculine form tvoj. If it were a granddaughter (unuka), you would use the feminine form tvoja.
Why is the word se in this sentence?
In Croatian, the verb "to rest" is odmarati se. It is a reflexive verb, which means it requires the word se (oneself), even though we just say "resting" in English. You can think of it literally as "resting oneself".
Why does balkon end with a -u (balkonu)?
The ending changes to -u because it is in the locative case. When you use the preposition na to talk about a fixed location (like resting on the balcony), the masculine noun balkon takes the locative ending -u.
Why is se placed exactly where it is?
The word se is an enclitic, which is a small grammar word that lacks its own stress and usually jumps into the second position in a sentence. Here, the entire subject phrase Tvoj unuk counts as the first block of information, so se tucks in right after it.
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