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U srijedu ne radim.

U srijedu ne radim.
I do not work on Wednesday.
From Lesson 107:Days of the week·Croatian

Breakdown of U srijedu ne radim.

ne
no, not
raditi
to work
u
in, into
srijeda
Wednesday

Questions & Answers about U srijedu ne radim.

Why is it u srijedu instead of just srijeda?
To say 'on' a day of the week, Croatian uses the preposition u followed by the day in the accusative case. The word for Wednesday is srijeda, which is a feminine noun. In the accusative case, the -a changes to -u, making it u srijedu.
Do all days of the week end in -u when we say we do something 'on' that day?
No, only the feminine days ending in -a change to -u in the accusative (srijeda, subota, nedjelja). Masculine days ending in a consonant (ponedjeljak, utorak, četvrtak, petak) stay exactly the same in the accusative case, so you just put u in front of them (for example, u ponedjeljak).
Where is the word for 'I' in this sentence?
Croatian usually drops subject pronouns like ja (I) because the verb ending already tells us who is doing the action. The -m ending on radim clearly means 'I work'. You could say Ja u srijedu ne radim, but dropping the pronoun is much more natural.
Why are ne and radim written as two separate words?
In Croatian, the negative word ne is almost always written separately in front of the verb. The only common exceptions where they combine into one word are the negative forms of 'to be' (nisam), 'to want' (neću), and 'to have' (nemam).

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