Questions & Answers about U utorak idemo u kino.
Why do we use u before utorak if the English translation is "on Tuesday"?
In Croatian, to express that something happens "on" a specific day of the week, you use the preposition u followed by the noun in the accusative case. Therefore, "on Tuesday" translates to u utorak.
If utorak is in the accusative case here, why didn't its ending change?
Utorak is a masculine noun representing a non-living thing. For inanimate masculine nouns, the accusative form is exactly the same as the basic dictionary form (nominative). That is why it does not get a new ending.
The word u is used twice in this sentence. Are they doing the same job?
They both trigger the accusative case, but they express different ideas here. The first u is used for time, meaning "on" a day (u utorak). The second u shows movement towards a destination, meaning "to" the cinema (u kino).
Why is the present tense verb idemo used for a future plan ("we are going")?
Croatian frequently uses the present tense to talk about planned events in the near future, similar to how we say "we are going" or "we go" in English. Because the sentence gives a specific future time (u utorak), the present tense idemo is perfectly natural here.
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