Breakdown of Ovi veseli glazbenici svirali su s gostima.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
ovaj
this (m) / ova (f), ovo (n)
gost
guest
svirati
to play (an instrument)
Questions & Answers about Ovi veseli glazbenici svirali su s gostima.
Why is the ending for guests -ima in gostima?
Gostima is the instrumental plural of the masculine noun gost (guest). Because it follows the preposition s (with), it must be in the instrumental case. As this lesson covers, the instrumental plural ending for regular masculine and neuter nouns is -ima.
Why does the word for musicians end in -ci (glazbenici) instead of just adding an -i?
The singular form is glazbenik. In Croatian, when masculine nouns ending in -k, -g, or -h become plural, those consonants change to -c, -z, or -s. Here, the k changes to c, giving us glazbenici.
The dictionary says cheerful is veseo. Why is it veseli here?
The word veseo ends in -eo, but that final o is actually an l that changed its shape over time in the masculine singular form. When you add endings for the plural, feminine, or neuter forms, that hidden l comes back. So to match the masculine plural noun glazbenici, veseo becomes veseli.
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