Breakdown of U mom snu bih imao krila zauvijek.
imati
to have
u
in, into
moj
my
bih
would (conditional auxiliary: bih, bi, bi, bismo, biste, bi)
san
dream
krilo
wing
zauvijek
forever
Questions & Answers about U mom snu bih imao krila zauvijek.
Why does bih come right after U mom snu instead of next to the verb?
bih is an enclitic, which means it is a weak word that must sit in the second position of a sentence. The first position can be a single word or a whole phrase. Here, the entire prepositional phrase U mom snu (In my dream) acts as the first block of information, so bih correctly takes the second spot.
How do we know who is speaking just from bih imao?
The word bih is the I form of the conditional helper verb. If it were he or you, the helper verb would be bi instead. Also, because the action verb is imao (the masculine l-participle), we know the speaker is male. A female speaker would say bih imala.
Isn't the word for dream san? Why is it snu here?
Yes, the dictionary form is san. However, this noun has a fleeting a. When it changes cases, like taking the locative case here after the preposition u (in), the a drops out. So, san loses its vowel to become sn-, and then we add the locative ending -u to get snu.
What case is krila and why does it end in an a?
krila is in the accusative case because it is the direct object of the verb imao (it is what the speaker would have). The base word is krilo (wing), which is a neuter noun. For neuter nouns, the plural accusative ending is -a, making it krila (wings).
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