Breakdown of Cvijet koji stoji na stolu je crven.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
stol
table
crven
red
na
on, at / to, onto (with motion) / about (thinking about)
Questions & Answers about Cvijet koji stoji na stolu je crven.
Why is the relative pronoun koji used here instead of koja or koje?
The word koji means "which" or "that", and it must match the gender, number, and case of the noun it connects to. Since cvijet (flower) is a masculine singular noun in the nominative case, we use the masculine singular nominative form koji.
The English translation says "standing", so why isn't there an extra word for "is" before stoji?
Croatian doesn't have a separate continuous tense like English does. The single present tense verb stoji can mean both "stands" and "is standing".
Why is the word for table stolu instead of stol?
We are describing where the flower is located, which means we use the locative case. After the preposition na (on) to show a fixed location, the masculine noun stol changes its ending to become stolu.