Word
Ne idem na posao jer imam temperaturu i prehladu.
Meaning
I am not going to work because I have a fever and a cold.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Ne idem na posao jer imam temperaturu i prehladu.
i
and (additive)
ne
no, not
jer
because
imati
to have
Questions & Answers about Ne idem na posao jer imam temperaturu i prehladu.
Could I use zato što instead of jer here?
Yes, you can! Both jer and zato što mean "because" and are usually interchangeable. You could perfectly well say ... zato što imam temperaturu i prehladu. The word jer is just a bit shorter and very common in everyday speech.
Does temperaturu mean "fever" or just "temperature"?
It means "fever" here. Just like in English, saying you "have a temperature" (imam temperaturu) is the standard, everyday way to say you have a fever in Croatian.
Why do we use na for going to work (na posao)?
In Croatian, you go "onto" work rather than "into" it. Certain locations, like work (posao), islands, or events, take the preposition na instead of u. Because you are going there (showing motion towards a destination), posao is in the accusative case.
Why do the words for fever and cold end in -u in this sentence?
They are the direct objects of the verb imam (I have), which means they need to be in the accusative case. The base forms are temperatura and prehlada. For feminine nouns ending in -a, the accusative ending is -u, which gives us temperaturu and prehladu.