Breakdown of U našem novom naselju je širok park.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
nov
new
park
park
u
in, into
naš
our
naselje
neighborhood
širok
wide
Questions & Answers about U našem novom naselju je širok park.
Why do našem and novom end in -em and -om?
They are describing the neuter noun naselje (neighborhood), which is in the locative case because it follows the preposition u (meaning "in" a location). For masculine and neuter nouns in the locative and dative cases, adjectives take the ending -om or -em.
Why does našem get the -em ending, but novom gets the -om ending?
This is due to the "hard and soft" consonant rule. The base word naš ends in š, which is a "soft" consonant, so it takes the soft ending -em. The base word nov ends in v, which is a "hard" consonant, so it takes the standard hard ending -om.
Why did the noun naselje change to naselju?
Naselje is a neuter noun. When neuter (and masculine) nouns are put into the dative or locative case, their dictionary ending changes to -u.
Why aren't širok and park also in the locative case?
Širok park is the subject of the sentence—it is the thing that exists in the neighborhood. The subject of a sentence always takes the nominative (dictionary) case. Because park is a masculine noun, the adjective širok remains in its base masculine nominative form.
Why is the verb je placed right after naselju?
The word je (is) is an enclitic, meaning it's a "weak" word that needs to be in the second position of a sentence. Here, the entire phrase U našem novom naselju counts as the first block of information, so je takes the second position right after it.
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