Breakdown of Volio bih rezervirati stol u restoranu.
stol
table
restoran
restaurant
voljeti
to love, to like
u
in, into
bih
would (conditional auxiliary: bih, bi, bi, bismo, biste, bi)
rezervirati
to reserve
Questions & Answers about Volio bih rezervirati stol u restoranu.
Wait, doesn't volio mean "liked" in the past tense? Why does it mean "would like" here?
You are right that volio is the form used for the past tense! However, when you pair it with the helper word bih, it creates the conditional mood. In Croatian, you express "I would [verb]" by combining the past participle (like volio or htio) with bih.
How would a woman say this sentence?
A female speaker would say Voljela bih rezervirati stol u restoranu. Since the conditional mood is built using the past tense participle, the verb must agree with the speaker's gender. A man says volio bih, while a woman says voljela bih.
Why doesn't the word stol (table) change its ending if it is the object being reserved?
The word stol is actually in the accusative case here because it is the direct object of the sentence. But remember that for masculine nouns that are non-living (inanimate), the accusative case looks exactly the same as the basic dictionary form.
Why is it u restoranu instead of just u restoran?
The preposition u (in/at) takes the locative case here because it describes a static location, telling us where the table is. For regular masculine nouns like restoran, the locative case is formed by adding -u to the end.
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