Word
Jučer si slabo skakao.
Meaning
Yesterday you jumped poorly.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Jučer si slabo skakao.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
jučer
yesterday
slabo
poorly
skakati
to jump (impf.)
Questions & Answers about Jučer si slabo skakao.
Since this lesson is about comparatives, how would I change slabo to say 'worse' or 'more poorly'?
To form the comparative of the adverb slabo, you add the ending -ije, making it slabije. So, 'Yesterday you jumped worse' would be Jučer si slabije skakao.
Slabo looks like it has a neuter adjective ending. Is that right?
Exactly! In Croatian, you usually create an adverb of manner simply by using the neuter singular form of an adjective. The adjective for 'weak' or 'poor' is slab, and its neuter form slabo does double duty as the adverb 'poorly'.
Why is the helping verb si placed right after Jučer?
si is an enclitic, which is a short, unstressed word. Croatian has a strict rule that enclitics must take the second position in the sentence. Since Jučer is the first word, si naturally has to come right after it.
Why does this sentence use skakao instead of skočio for 'jumped'?
Skakao is the past tense form of the imperfective verb skakati. This implies an ongoing or repeated action, like jumping up and down multiple times during a sports practice. If you were talking about one single, completed jump, you would use the perfective verb skočiti and say skočio.